# Front Matter
Today Lance takes a look at the question: Why did God Create Humans to be sent to hell?
He unpacks three answers to this question and explores the ramifications of the metaphysics of the will.
## This is a serious Topic
- the reality is that this question touches on aspect of our worldview that inform us on the very nature of God's goodness. The question of the nature of the will, though central to this issue, is nevertheless used by us to understand God's relationship to the problems of evil. And it can be an upsetting experience to have these assumption challenged.
## This Topic is surrounded by Mystery from every view point.
- We have to walk a line here that puts us between two extremes when we talk about this topic: the "complete" answer, that leaves nothing to mystery, and the mysterious answer, that leaves it all to mystery. The bible is somewhere in between these two extremes.
- But every approach to this question claims some sort of mystery at one point or another. This is not bad on the face of it but it is a dangerous place to be: to claim mystery where the Word of God has spoken or to claim revelation where the Word of God has not Spoken are two errors that we must avoid.
# Three Approaches to this question
## 1) He didn't. He took a chance that we would go to hell by giving us [[Libertarian Free Will]] and discovered after we chose where we were headed. (Open Theism)
- This is the most logically complete and consistent viewpoint in terms of faithfulness to LFW. Given LFW as a presupposed non negotiable this is the conclusion that one must come to in order to be truly faithful to LFW.
- John Frame has a good quote on this in his Systematic Theology:
> As with open theists Pinnock and Rice, libertarians tend to make their view of free will a nonnegotiable, central truth, with which all other theological statements must be made consistent. Libertarian freedom then takes on a kind of paradigmatic or presuppositional status. But as we have seen, libertarianism is unscriptural. It would be bad enough merely to assert libertarianism contrary to the Bible. But making it a central truth or governing perspective is very dangerous indeed. An incidental error can be corrected without much trouble. But when such an error becomes a major principle, a grid through which all other doctrinal statements are filtered, then a theological system is in grave danger of shipwreck.
### Why is this view wrong?
- This view is simply wrong for several reasons.
- First: It is simply miles away from *quite* a few basic biblical doctrines such as the sovereignty of God, the omniscience of God, and the nature of time itself regarding God.
- Second: This view relies and assumes that LFW is an nonnegotiable central truth. But this is untenable considering the Bibles take on the nature of the will. Not only does the Bible never affirm LFW in a few spots it explicitly denies core aspect of LFW. And the other doctrines conflict with LFW on a deep level.
## 2) He didn't. While He knew how we would choose he nevertheless did not choose for us and gave us Libertarian Free Will. How that works in light of God's Sovereignty is a mystery but we have perfect freedom to choose either hell or heaven. (Classical Arminianism)
- This is the most common view of faithful Christians' that nevertheless cannot get on board with the conclusions of the Calvinist.
- This is also the view that can be follow throughout history all the way back to the early church fathers.
- It must be noted that even though this view, married as it is to LFW, can be found in the early Christian writers it would be a an error to declare LFW to be true based on that fact. If that were true then it would prove too much. Read Justine Martyr, Origin, and many others to a smaller degree and you will find beliefs that are simply counter to the scriptures.
- Further, and the reason we find error in the early Christians,