The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.

[Chad32]

It's unnecessary, unless you feel God is somehow beholden to the system of heaven and hell as opposed to having created heaven and hell. You're stripping out all the bad parts of the issue so that only the good remain and then acting confused at why people have a problem with it.

That's the core of apologetics, isn't it? Blame the victim. Say they misunderstood the scriptures. Anything that takes blame away from the guy in charge, because he's perfect and you just have to have faith that he's actually what people say he is. He gives you a free gift, except there are a lot of things he wants you to do after accepting the completely free gift. He wants to save you from hell, except he's the one who created hell and tells you that you deserve to be sent there.

He's a god of love, justice, and mercy, yet some people believe there's a lake of fire where unbelievers will be burn for eternity, which kind of breaks all three things I listed before at once. That is the mainstream view of hell, to my knowledge, yet some people are completely baffled as to why we don't worship this eldritch abomination they call a god.

There's a case to be made that ultimate justice and ultimate mercy kind of contradict each other anyway.