They say that humans must have free will to be important, to love and be loved. Therefor, it is inevitable some will choose to reject God. And choosing to reject God is to put oneself in hell.
Therefor, they say, hell is justified.
But is it actually inevitable, given the free wills of billions of souls, that some will reject God? What is this “inevitable” mathematically speaking? What percentage of the total number of souls should we expect will be saved given this inevitability? 50%? 25%? 1%? Even given billions of souls, is a 25% salvation rate more likely than 100%? If one flips a coin 100 times one can predict mathematically what the odds are it will be heads every time. The odds that it will be heads 50 times are presumably much greater. But a coin is a known quantity. Its result is random (the random is not predictable, except in a broad statistical sense) not freely chosen. The odds against it turning up heads 100 times out of 100 are extremely low. If we treat free souls like flipped coins, it seems impossible that all shall be saved. But are we not, in assuming a significant number of lost souls, making a mistake in treating them like flipped coins? Must freedom be unpredictable? Random? Arbitrary?
Does freedom operate according to the laws of chance? And if not, why should all being saved be less likely than, say, half?
Why could not the perfect freedom of all guarantee the salvation of all? What is the more likely result, and how do we know?
POSTED JULY 31, 2023