I've been thinking about a theological point, recently. If God can see the future, and He knows that some people will disobey Him and some people will obey Him, and if He will send those who disobey Him to Hell, why does He create them in the first place? Does it not seem cruel, something a good God would not do, create these people destined to be tortured forever? It is similar, perhaps, to the question of evil — why do some people suffer and not others? Some would say that, because of the problem of evil, there can only be the conclusion that either God is not omnipotent (can't prevent evil), or that He can't be good (He likes evil, at least sometimes). But perhaps there is another thing going on.
Jesus, called the Christ, was supposedly the only begotten Son of God. If God loved no one else in the world, God loved this man. And yet, even though Jesus Christ never did one wrong thing in his life, even so, God the Father allowed that he be beaten, humiliated, and crucified. You may go one way on this story, that Jesus was just an ordinary man, and that either there was no God looking out for him, or that God was malicious and perhaps enjoyed this man's pain. There's that. But if we look at a Christian's faith, we see that the belief is that this man was resurrected from that death, and within that miracle, both death and the Devil were overcome, defeated. More than that, Christians may, when suffering, focus on that man hanging from the cross, and it gives them hope, faith, and strength. There was purpose for it, meaning behind the pain.
I think nothing wrong with questions, but I find that in some questions it is easy to find answers that shortcut a deeper meaning. As to my question about why God lets those people be created whom He knows will end up in Hell, I believe I have a reply: how can we be said to have free will if that we would not be allowed to exist if we were not to obey? That is no freedom, I would say.... In thinking, there may always be questions, but, too, that in faith, will always be answers there. Just open your eyes.
