Would a good God punish people with eternal torment for not having faith in Christ if they were not even capable of having faith in Christ?
I offer that I am already aware of this issue. And Jesus says God alone is good, which to me means He is the only One capable of a really good choice.
And what I have is that hell is not only for punishing, but is God's holding place for evil, the spirit of evil (Ephesians 2:2), and ones who are vessels for holding Satan's evil spirit in organized form . . . in vessels of dishonor > Romans 9:21.
And I am noticing how so many humans do not choose God, so many more than do. To me, this confirms how humans of their own selves do not have the character to choose Jesus. They do not have the goodness of nature to choose Him. But Jesus does. Even before their fall, Adam and Eve didn't. Only Jesus could be the first to really live a choice of good.
So, none of us have been somehow superior to others, so we have gotten ourselves to make the good choice.
"But God be thanked that though you were slaves of sin, yet you obeyed from the heart that form of doctrine to which you were delivered." (Romans 6:17)
In case Adam and Eve did have some genuinely free and autonomous will before they fell, they did fall. I understand this would mean they lost that freedom, so their sin passed on to humans and made humans
"slaves of sin" . . . not free.
And God's word says we were
"dead" in our sin > Ephesians 2:1-3. We were not in love which would make us alive to choose God and loving the way Jesus means.
Plus, by the way, in sin we were already in torment . . . because of our own evil nature making us able to deeply suffer. My opinion is you can not suffer in hell unless you have a Satanic nature making you able to suffer there. But with Jesus we have His
"divine nature" (2 Peter 1:4) which keeps us free from the corruption of Satanic passions and drives and the weakness to keep on suffering. In the nature of God's love we can not suffer spiritually >
"There is no fear in love; but perfect love casts out fear, because fear involves torment. But he who fears has not been made perfect in love." (1 John 4:18)
So, I don't think it is wise to say God is "horrible". He knows what is reality. And He has had mercy on us, and so He is the One to be thanked. And our logic is not.
"If anyone thinks that he knows anything, he knows nothing yet as he ought to know." (in 1 Corinthians 8:2)
If anyone claims to have the ability to choose God, let us choose to constantly obey how God rules each of us in His own peace >
"And let the peace of God rule in your hearts, to which also you were called in one body; and be thankful." (Colossians 3:15)
It appears to me how some number of people who preach their own wills are not deeply submissive to God in His own peace. But they preach excuses, even, for not doing so . . . while they say not a word about how we can actively seek our Father to correct us > Hebrews 12:4-14 <
and all which is guaranteed to come with God correcting every one of His children.
And our New Covenant includes
"forgiving one another, even as God" > in Ephesians 4:32.
This is basic Christianity, if we have chosen Jesus. But I can hear more preaching of free will, than of personally submitting to our Father in His own peace, and more glorifying of free will and attention to free will, than I hear about
"forgiving one another, even as God in Christ forgave you."
Has our attention, then, chosen Jesus? Have we really chosen all which God has to offer?
By the way, when I hear ones talking about predestination, it has a lot to do with if humans control things . . . not a word about how God's children have been destined
"to be conformed to the image of His Son, that He might be the firstborn among many brethren." (Romans 8:29)
So, all the arguing about who controls choices can be a decoy trick to keep attention away from becoming conformed to the image of Jesus.