GoodKat, in your other comment, you said that your parents take you to church. I think that you have a decent grasp of Christian beliefs. If so, you probably understand that mankind inherited a sin nature and we are slaves to sin. You probably also know that everyone has sinned.
Do you also know that God can not be in the presence of sin? So, Hell should be viewed more as a quaranteen for those who refused to be healed of the sin plague that they suffer from.
Now, your other questions are pretty deep philosophy. You seem to indicate that God should have created a reality without the chance of sin, but also with a free will for every person.
Think about those requirements and you'll see them as mutually exclusive-- an impossibility. It's like asking God to create a square circle.
God created the most perfect reality He could while getting the end result He wanted-- a relationship with a group of people who choose to worship Him and have a relationship with Him.
Now, your bigger problem is that your parents love you enough to offer you the truth, yet you choose to reject it.
I'm praying that you will come to accept it, and that you will enter a life of relationship with the God who loved you enough to die for you, and loves you enough now to offer you chance after chance.
God loves you and wants to spend eternity with you.
God loves you Good Kat...
GoodKat, in your other comment, you said that your parents take you to church. I think that you have a decent grasp of Christian beliefs. If so, you probably understand that mankind inherited a sin nature and we are slaves to sin. You probably also know that everyone has sinned.
Do you also know that God can not be in the presence of sin? So, Hell should be viewed more as a quaranteen for those who refused to be healed of the sin plague that they suffer from.
Now, your other questions are pretty deep philosophy. You seem to indicate that God should have created a reality without the chance of sin, but also with a free will for every person.
Think about those requirements and you'll see them as mutually exclusive-- an impossibility. It's like asking God to create a square circle.
God created the most perfect reality He could while getting the end result He wanted-- a relationship with a group of people who choose to worship Him and have a relationship with Him.
Now, your bigger problem is that your parents love you enough to offer you the truth, yet you choose to reject it.
I'm praying that you will come to accept it, and that you will enter a life of relationship with the God who loved you enough to die for you, and loves you enough now to offer you chance after chance.
God loves you and wants to spend eternity with you.
Never forget that.