(February 3, 2012 at 3:09 pm)Doubting Thomas Wrote: If you're an all-powerful, all-knowing, and all-good being, why even create the universe? Why not just create Heaven with all the good souls to kiss your ass forever, and just forget about making the earth, all the evil people, and this ridiculous "test" system to determine where you end up for eternity? Especially since God is supposedly planning on destroying the entire universe some day anyway. It just doesn't make sense at all. That's what a more efficient, and truly all-good god would do and not worry about all the evil people.
I know, I know, God created Hell as a place to send Satan after he rebelled, but if I was all-knowing I wouldn't have created Satan in the first place, or else made him be all good like all the other angels.
You call what I've put in bold a loving choice, I say that would be truly tyrannical.
God loves those who believe and those who do not and the same goes for me, you have no choice in this matter. That puts the matter of total free will to rest.
