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If God were cruel, He could simply do justice and damn everyone without exception.

How is making a creature you know is faulty and then allowing it to propogate so that you can make them all suffer eternally "just?"

His ways are not your ways, Pistias.

It may be "fair" in our eyes to save everyone, but what would REALLY be fair...what we all deserve....is everyone going to hell. God chose not to be fair, but have mercy.

That is something to shout off the mountaintop, whether you want to or not.

The fact that one is doomed is a travesty of cruelty, if they have no chance to avoid it.

How is it a travesty of cruelty that they can't avoid what they deserve?

How is making a creature you know is faulty and then allowing it to propogate so that you can make them all suffer eternally "just?"

But Adam wasn't faulty. "And God saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good." Adam chose on his own to follow Eve into sin, not because God forced him to. As with human sin today, it was God's will to allow it, but He did not cause it. Adam caused it.

The fact that a person is predisposed to evil doesn't make him less culpable. He is predisposed to it because he loves it, and the fact that he loves evil is exactly why he is damned.