It's just, why would you make beings that you know, with all specificity are going to do the things that you will punish them with the worst possible thing imaginable for and then let them do it, knowing you will punish them, if you also love them?
But exercising your free will independently of God's own desires will damn you to eternal conscious torment; therefore while such a God can be said to be omnipotent and omniscient, he can't be said to be loving or fundamentally good
Kind of like the "capitalism is voluntary association" argument. It's not voluntary if you are coerced
Edit: I'm sorry, I see you kind of got dogpiled here, that wasn't my intention
One argument I've heard is that it's because God values free will
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It's just, why would you make beings that you know, with all specificity are going to do the things that you will punish them with the worst possible thing imaginable for and then let them do it, knowing you will punish them, if you also love them?
If you love em let em go, live laugh love
also the gays burn in perpetuity
Then he would create a situatiom in which people had it. Decisions made under duress do not count.
Going to church to avoid punishment is not a free choice.
But exercising your free will independently of God's own desires will damn you to eternal conscious torment; therefore while such a God can be said to be omnipotent and omniscient, he can't be said to be loving or fundamentally good
Kind of like the "capitalism is voluntary association" argument. It's not voluntary if you are coerced
Edit: I'm sorry, I see you kind of got dogpiled here, that wasn't my intention