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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]God doesn’t send people to hell.[/quote]

But he knows they are going there before they are born, so yes, technically he does.[/quote]

God does not decide who goes to heaven and hell. Each individual person decides whether they receive Jesus and go to heaven or spend eternity in hell. God is constantly pursuing humanity with his love and kindness. ... God provided salvation as a gift through the crucifixion and resurrection of His Son, Jesus Christ.[/quote]

But does god know what they will do before they are born?

By your definition, yes he does.  So there is no free will and he sends them to damnation on purpose.

You can't have it both ways.[/quote]

Free will means God knows what people will chose before they are born; not that he makes the choice for each person before they are born.

God gives us the freedom to make a choice; we aren’t a rock or a tree. Our freedom of choice is never revoked. It is always left up to the individual to make their choices and decisions in their life. Free will also means God cannot demand our love. God seeks our love and affection, but our love and affection for God is left completely up to us to decide upon. We decide. Without this free will and independent decision making process, we would have no personal relationship with God.

So God doesn’t decide if we go to heaven or hell. He doesn’t send us to either place. We decide as agents of our own lives and through the exercise of our free will.

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And I bet you're set to go to heaven, because with the free will that God gave you, you have given your love and affection to God. What a good feeling that must be!

You are no fool.  You know if you didn't give God your love and affection, then you'd go to hell -- of your own free will.  Who would make a choice like that?  No one.

Then there are all the people who never  heard of this God and his offer, and those who heard of it and think it's BS.[/quote]

Love and affection to and from God does not grant one a place in heaven. The only way one can attain that is through the Lord Jesus Christ.

Jesus Himself says in John 14:6, “I am the way, the truth, and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” He is not a way, as in one of many; He is the way, as in the one and only. No one, regardless of reputation, achievement, special knowledge, or personal holiness, can come to God the Father except through Jesus.

Eternal life in heaven is made possible only through Christ. Jesus prayed, “Now this is eternal life: that they may know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you have sent” (John 17:3). To receive God’s free gift of salvation, we must look to Jesus and Jesus alone. We must trust in Jesus’ death on the cross as our payment for sin and in His resurrection. “This righteousness from God comes through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe” (Romans 3:22).
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