(November 6, 2017 at 10:54 am)possibletarian Wrote: Why test, when you supposedly created them and knew them at birth. In your scenario it seems as if god does not know who and who will not come to him. Why not for instance only allow those to be born who will gain eternal life. God according to the bible can raise people for a purpose (they supposedly still have free will) so it is possible for a god to do.
Read Romans 9. The saved know God more fully because of the suffering and evil in the creation, and therefore have a deeper relationship with him.
22 What if God, wanting to show His wrath and to make His power known, endured with much longsuffering the vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, 23 and that He might make known the riches of His glory on the vessels of mercy, which He had prepared beforehand for glory, 24 even us whom He called, not of the Jews only, but also of the Gentiles?