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Theoretically there could be billions of souls who already never get a chance of life because they never get around to being created. But I wouldn't say that God was being unjust because He didn't create those theoretical beings.Yes, God creates people who he knows, even at the point of birth, will reject him. But would it be just of him to say, "I will only let live people who are going to believe in me"? If it were possible for an unfertilised egg to say to God, "why did I have no chance of life?" and God were to say, "because I knew that the person you became wouldn't have believed in me, so it was better to deny you a chance at all,", how would that be either just or loving?
If that were the case, why couldn't he have created Adam without the ability to choose, and therefore sin by making the wrong choice?
However, if annihilation or ECT was going be their end if He were to create them, then yes, I think His having created them would be unjust—far more unjust than simply not creating them at all. In fact, it would be more loving and humane for Him to refrain from creating them, for their own protection.
Exactly. Heaven would serve a dual purpose—being heaven for those who love God and hell for those who don't, making a separate hell unnecessary.It wouldn't be heaven for them.
I'm not sure even that is possible. One can certainly feel separated from God, but in actuality they're not, whether it be spiritual, physical, or geographical.Not geographically; sin separates us from God spiritually.
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