I agree that free will is a blessing. But why set up a test that good people, with all the best intentions, can easily fail, as most have done throughout history? And why is free will and its consequences summarily withdrawn after one hundred years?
I think when we see God in heaven we'll wonder at our blindness and be filled with awe at his mercy and grace to us.
I agree wholeheartedly. But we humble creatures of earth do not punish the blind, much less eternally. How could almighty God?
I had a brilliant response created to send to you, then my cat walked across the keyboard, sat down and erased it! Perhaps he didn't agree with what I had written because he spent time watching the keyboard before deleting everything.
I know some things: God is good, he is merciful and loving. I know we only know some things in part now, but someday we will know more fully.
I would not presume to think we are more merciful than God - I know I'm not. I would have erased creation long ago because of man's cruelty to each other! And Hitler would still be alive somewhere in great agony.
The question you proposed for discussion is a corollary to the one about how a good God could allow human suffering. Something else I don't know. God knows the end from the beginning and I'm glad he's in charge rather than me, aren't you?