Tough Question #19: Bumbling Idiot God?

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In my questions about Hell, I frequently get the response that Hell was not created for humans, Hell was created for the devil and his angels. It was never intended to hold mankind it was because of mankind’s sin that we ended up there.

And that’s a very good response, and could be a very convincing response if you didn’t claim that God was all-knowing, and all-powerful.

You see, if God was a, say bumbling idiot, and he created Hell to store the devil and his angels and didn’t realize that by making perfection the requirement to avoid Hell and then making humans imperfect would automatically condemn everyone to Hell, then you can kinda use the Bible as an example of God doing everything he can to fix his mistake and try to do something to save at least a few humans.

But, Christians don’t believe in a bumbling God. They believe in a God who is all-knowing, all-powerful, and never makes mistakes. Which means when he created Hell, he would’ve been doing so with the foreknowledge of every single soul who would’ve end up there, and he would have built it with the intent of holding those souls, and he would’ve designed it in the exact way he wanted those souls to experience eternity.

Which means God created Hell for the purpose of holding the majority of mankind and torturing them for eternity.

The Tough Question for you this time is: Which is it? Did God create Hell with the foreknowledge and the intent of burning most of humanity there, or is God a bumbling idiot who created Hell without realizing the consequences of his own actions.

TOUGH QUESTION FOR CHRISTIANS #19

Did God create Hell with the foreknowledge and intent of torturing humanity? Or is he a bumbling idiot who could not foresee the consequences of his own actions?

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