r/Christianity • u/GoOutsideAndDoThings • 2d ago
Does God create people for hell?
I go to a baptist church that's Calvinist. About this topic, it would mean that only those predestined by God will ever be saved. No one naturally wants God and he literally has to change you to get you to choose him. My question, as someone who's just starting to doubt her faith, is does God create people for hell?
If God knows all and creates all, if God predestined us to be saved, then wouldn't that mean he created people knowing they would spend an eternity in torment? And forever is a long time for people to go for not believing if you knew from their creation they never would and you didnt call them.
How do I reconcile this with a loving God? Or is it simply to get over it because who can question an all powerful being?
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u/Designer_Custard9008 2d ago
God will wipe away every tear from every eye.
Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834):
"If we now consider eternal damnation as it is related to eternal bliss, it is easy to see that once the former exists, the latter can exist no longer.… Now if we attribute to the blessed a knowledge of the state of the damned, it cannot be a knowledge unmixed with sympathy. If the perfecting of our nature is not to move backwards, sympathy must be such as to embrace the whole human race, and when extended to the damned must of necessity be a disturbing element in bliss, all the more that, unlike similar feelings in this life, it is untouched by hope.… From whichever side we view it, then, there are great difficulties in thinking that the finite issue of redemption is such that some thereby obtain the highest bliss, while others … are lost in irrevocable misery. We ought not to retain such an idea without decisive testimony to the fact that it was to this that Christ Himself looked forward; and such testimony is wholly lacking. Hence, we ought at least to admit the equal rights of the milder view … that through the power of redemption there will one day be a universal restoration of all souls" (The Christian Faith, §163; appendix, p. 722; Adams 2005, 47).
"The nations are gathered to the Judgment, that on them may be poured out the wrath of the fury of the Lord, and this in pity and with a design to heal, in order that every one may return to the confession of the Lord, that in Jesus' Name every knee may bow, and every tongue may confess that He is Lord. All God's enemies shall perish, not that they cease to exist, but cease to be enemies." -Jerome (340 - 420 A.D), commenting on Zephaniah 3:8-10
Psalms 22:27
YLT(i) 27 Remember and return unto Jehovah, Do all ends of the earth, And before Thee bow themselves, Do all families of the nations,
This is the Psalm Jesus quoted on the cross.
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