# Why does God create people that he knows are doomed to hell.

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [June 2, 2002, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-god-create-people-that-he-knows-are-doomed-to-hell/111956 "2002-06-02T00:26:17Z")\
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**Author:** ![clairobscur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/839c29/32.png) [@clairobscur](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clairobscur)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-god-create-people-that-he-knows-are-doomed-to-hell/111956/61 "2002-06-05T15:43:16Z")

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> so he sees your life in all it’s possibilites and he lets you live that life.  
> i think he would prefer you to make some choices more than others, but he never forces.  
> thus it is possible to believe that every person, by making the right choices, can attain paradise, and that god puts this capability in everyone. it is thus up to the person whether they make the choices or not.
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> sorry, does that make any sense?

Yes, but in this case, it means that god is unable to know what will be our choices, hence isn’t omniscient…

And it still means that if we make the wrong choices, we’ll be punished forever by this god, hence he isn’t all-loving…

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**Author:** ![irishgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/8edcca/32.png) [@irishgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/irishgirl)\
**Post date:** [June 5, 2002, 10:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-god-create-people-that-he-knows-are-doomed-to-hell/111956/62 "2002-06-05T22:47:11Z")

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i don’t have to hate someone to believe that they do not deserve something they haven’t earned. and i don’t believe the fires of hell are for unbelievers.  
heaven would not BE heaven if it was full of murderers and childmolesters and so on…not that they can’t get in, but i think they would have to be different people on some level from the ones who had committed the crimes.

and he knows all the possible choices, he can’t control them…omnisicient but alowing our freewill to exist.

all knowing, but not controlling, just and merciful.  
maybe the justice and mercy and love are beyond our comprehension, i don’t know.

how can i as a person say who should go where or why?

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