People burn because they sin AND reject the will of God, Not just because they sin.
Right, the question still stands.
When you said why did God not create two people who would obey Him, you are saying that God could have controlled the future decision of the free willed people he created.
No more so than with Adam and Eve. When he set about with his decision to creat certain beings, he knew every little and final detail of their existence - including how they would act and behave. There are no surprises for him, merely an absolutely inevitable and unavoidable outcome that he is fully aware of before he even went about shaping the clay that made them. Every thought of theirs, every decision, everytime they took a pee - all completely known before the act.
So where do you contend the difference is in making Ben and Jane instead? He would still know every little detail, every thought, every action. They would still be making their own choices, have their own free will just like Adam and Eve. The only difference would be the outcome.
This god entity made a conscious willed decision to create these two specific beings. He could have made that same decision but instead created Ben and Jane and avoided the eternal burning of many billions sometime far in the future.
God could not simply bring to an end the existence of Adam and eve and try again until he got two individuals who would make the right decision.
He wouldn't have to bring an end to the existence of Adam or Eve unless of course he rolled a dice or flipped a coin and saw what version of a being popped out - but that cannot be argued given his omniscience. He knew exactly what kind of being he was going to poop out and he made the choice to make that exact kind of being.
I also believe that the universe was created by God as a place where God and satan could demonstrate to the heavenly host their claims.
So we are here to witness cosmic ego at work? A perfect entity would not have need or want for such petty nonsense.
And it is a game that God has already Won.
Only a complete blithering twonk sets up the game board knowing he's already won. It comes down to nothing more than showing off.
Your whole question seems to be based on the belief that God could just wipe His first creation
Incorrect, they need not have been created in the first place, much like Adams first wife Lilith. This god knew exactly what type of being it would create. Every thought, feeling, action, their behaviour and so on and so forth. If you contend that god had no idea, he just lumped together some clay and that was that then fine. The minute it is asserted that god is omniscient is the minute this comes into play because he made the decision to make a being that
would sin and reject as opposed to one that wouldn't. In both cases free will would remain intact, one would just lead to a lot less burning.
But wiping creation would be both against Gods Love for His creation and Would show the heavenly host a victory for satan over the will of God.
1) He "wiped" every single living thing on the planet bar a small handful, (mainly for sacrificial purposes).
2) That the mass majority will burn in hell
is clearly a victory for satan.
In the long run all that has happened in creation will demonstrate both the righteousness of Gods will and the falseness of satans claim.
What claim of satans was false?
All things work towards the ultimate good
The majority burning in a pit of fire forever and ever... That's good? :bugeye:
