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Drew's Question 4: If God knows who will choose him, why not only create those people and skip earthly suffering? If free will is the answer, that implies heaven lacks free will (since there's no suffering there), making earth better than heaven.

4 Weird Questions That Should Not Make You an Atheist 01:00:39 – 01:02:09

Presenting Drew's argument — why create the non-elect?

Drew argues: an omniscient God knows who would believe, so creating non-believers (destined for hell) is incompatible with omni-benevolence. If free-will-plus-suffering is the answer, then heaven (without suffering) must lack free will, making earth superior. Drew concludes the tri-omni concept falls apart under scrutiny.

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