CrystalDragon
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God doesn't destroy those who disagree with Him. He provides for them the free grace of Jesus Christ as a means of salvation so that man is without excuse. If they do not repent, He sentences them to eternal judgment in Hell which is a place completely devoid of God's grace, mercy, peace, and love.
I think a good number of people struggle with the correlation to our free will, and God's omnipotence. The fact remains though that we are all creations who are given life by the mercy of God to bear His glory. Creations are always created by a creator to be used how the he/she sees fit (Rom. 9:14-24). In the case of God, while He is The Creator of all things, He is also Perfectly Good, and Loving so while we do not know the complete manifold wisdom of God, we can still take comfort in His will being done, and being done for our good (Rom. 8:28).
"Perfectly good" and "loving" are incompatible with hell.
Not to mention if God is all-knowing, all-powerful, and everything happens according to his plan, then free will doesn't exist. We just like to think it does because the alternative is too uncomfortable for us. And trying to counter it by saying "God doesn't want robots" doesn't work, because that's how we justify it ourselves. We only want to think that God doesn't want robots, but if God knows everything we can't have free will by default.
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