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    Challenges→God offers his grace to all human beings, though many freely reject it and seal their fate in hell.

    If God possesses perfect foreknowledge, then God creates persons he knows with certainty will reject grace and suffer eternal torment.

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    • 1.Perfect foreknowledge means God knows with certainty which persons will reject grace, as surely as knowing mathematical truths.
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    • 2.Creating someone God knows will suffer eternal torment appears incompatible with omnibenevolence absent compelling justification.
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    • 3.No theodicy adequately explains why an all-powerful God must create beings destined for damnation rather than alternative scenarios.
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    • 1.Foreknowledge of a choice doesn't causally determine it; God knowing freely-made rejections differs from God causing them.
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    • 2.Creation itself is a good that may justify permitting foreknown suffering, even if God could prevent specific instances of it.
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    • 3.The claim assumes divine benevolence must prevent all suffering—but compatibility theists argue God permits it for greater goods.
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