Why would God create someone knowing they would go to hell?

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Catholic Answers Director of Apologetics, Tim Staples, explains why God would create someone knowing they would go to hell.

Tim Staples is Director of Apologetics and Evangelization here at Catholic Answers, but he was not always Catholic. Tim was raised a Southern Baptist. Although he fell away from the faith of his childhood, Tim came back to faith in Christ during his late teen years through the witness of Christian televangelists. Soon after, Tim joined the Marine Corps. During his four-year tour, he became involved in ministry with various Assemblies of God communities. Immediately after his tour of duty, Tim enrolled in Jimmy Swaggart Bible College and became a youth minister in an Assembly of God community.

During his final year in the Marines, however, Tim met a Marine who really knew his faith and challenged Tim to study Catholicism from Catholic and historical sources. That encounter sparked a two-year search for the truth. Tim was determined to prove Catholicism wrong, but he ended up studying his way to the last place he thought he would ever end up: the Catholic Church!

He converted to Catholicism in 1988 and spent the following six years in formation for the priesthood, earning a degree in philosophy from St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Overbrook, Pennsylvania. He then studied theology on a graduate level at Mount St. Mary's Seminary in Emmitsburg, Maryland, for two years.

Realizing that his calling was not to the priesthood, Tim left the seminary in 1994 and has been working in Catholic apologetics and evangelization ever since.

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[001001sith]

COMMENT APPROVALS ARE ONLY DENIALIBILTY OF THE TRUTH..

[catholiccom]

@001001sith We have nothing to fear from the truth. Comments are welcome as long as there is no profanity and the post is meant for discussion rather than someone just dropping by and lobbing an insult.

[wukalar76]

@Cherubaby - Hell is for all unrepentant sinners. It doesn't matter

how severe or how minor the sins are. Sin is sin. All sin comes short

of God's glory. For sin cannot enter Heaven.

[OrodethX]

@Pacisdiligo There is a fallacy in that statement.

God gave man free will, therefore He gives man the free will to choose damnation or salvation. If Jesus saves everyone even if they don't want to be saved, then man never had the gift of free will and this whole exile on earth has been a farce and an exercise in futility.

God damming us to hell is a common misconception, He doesn't want us to go to hell, that's why He gave us Jesus. It is man that damns himself by the choices he makes.

[Cherubaby]

@Pacisdiligo No, Hell is NOT a place for selfish/errant souls. It is a place for Absolute EVIL Souls. Souls that Love to hurt and give great pain and suffering to others - and never, never, never stop doing this! Only Absolute Evil goes to Hell because it has REJECTED all that is Good.

[m1chae15]

@atheistram How reasonable is a nebulous assertion?

[Pacisdiligo]

I believe God's compassion for Man is such that Hell, as a place of eternal torment, is an impossibility. I cannot reconcile the idea with true Divine love an genuine justice. I could see a "Hell" as a place of temporary punishment/purification for certain selfish/errant souls. Ultimately, I see Jesus' atonement as efffecting a universal reconciliation for all of humanity. In essence, God wins and everything is redeemed.

[anytiff21]

The host took about six minutes to say, in an intelligent-sounding way, "I don't know the answer to your question". They called it a mystery. More like a paradox. A sinner is, by definition, faulty. Why else would they choose what they do? Those faults are present at birth. Even if they don't manifest until some trigger brings them out, a better design would allow them to resist sin. Ask yourself, why would someone choose to behave in a way that wil result in hell, if they can help it?

[001001sith]

why thank you..so i hope by saying that free-will is a inner-sin error already embedded through human creation?

[bcharville]

@atheistram The Catholic Church brought us out of the Dark Ages.