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[Edward11]

Good afternoon,
Before I get into my question, I need to give a little background of my faith. I was raised Roman Catholic and went to Catholic school up to 5th grade. Years later I went through a rebellious stage and claimed to be atheis. Unfortunately it lasted longer than it should have. In the past 6 years my faith has grown, and the changes in my life are evident. During my atheist times I had a question that I never got a fulfilling answer to, and feel there is a logical answer that I’m just overlooking. The question is “If God is the creator and all knowing, then he must have known which people would go to heaven or hell when he created them. Using this logic, did God create people to specifically go to heaven or hell?” Thank you so much for your time and God Bless You!

 

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[SabbathBlessings]

Good afternoon,
Before I get into my question, I need to give a little background of my faith. I was raised Roman Catholic and went to Catholic school up to 5th grade. Years later I went through a rebellious stage and claimed to be atheis. Unfortunately it lasted longer than it should have. In the past 6 years my faith has grown, and the changes in my life are evident. During my atheist times I had a question that I never got a fulfilling answer to, and feel there is a logical answer that I’m just overlooking. The question is “If God is the creator and all knowing, then he must have known which people would go to heaven or hell when he created them. Using this logic, did God create people to specifically go to heaven or hell?” Thank you so much for your time and God Bless You!

No, God's desire is to save all people.

John 3:17 For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved.

God is all knowing and knows a head of time who will be saved and who will be lost, but He doesn't take away our decisions and choices, He allows us the freedom to make them. Forced love is not true love, like if we program a doll to tell us every morning how much they love us, is that because it truly does love or because we programed them that way and who would want that if one is seeking an authentic loving relationship as God desires with us. God never leaves us, we leave Him by our choices. He knocks, we have to open the door.

18 “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. 19 And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. 20 For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. 21 But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done in God.”

 

[Hentenza]

Good afternoon,
Before I get into my question, I need to give a little background of my faith. I was raised Roman Catholic and went to Catholic school up to 5th grade. Years later I went through a rebellious stage and claimed to be atheis. Unfortunately it lasted longer than it should have. In the past 6 years my faith has grown, and the changes in my life are evident. During my atheist times I had a question that I never got a fulfilling answer to, and feel there is a logical answer that I’m just overlooking. The question is “If God is the creator and all knowing, then he must have known which people would go to heaven or hell when he created them. Using this logic, did God create people to specifically go to heaven or hell?” Thank you so much for your time and God Bless You!

Foreknowledge =\= predestination (in the double sense). Just because God knows something ahead of time doesn’t mean that He caused it. For example, I am on the top of a small building. I see two cars coming from opposite directions that I know will undoubtedly collide. They collide. Did I cause the accident simply because I knew that it was going to happen? Of course not.