Living in a world where everything needs to be empirically proven, it's extremely hard to put your faith into something. Especially in today's culture, there needs to be a pragmatic answer for everything. But besides all the hustle and bustle of life on earth problems, there also seems to be another thing that can't seem to leave my mind:
Why doesn't everyone get to go to Heaven?
Why did God, a superior being, make a world where everyone would not be granted salvation? Although there may be many ways to attack this question, there is also a plentitude of ways to defend it as well.
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The biggest obstacle I seem to run into when asking this question is the divinity of God. In a Christian worldview, He is seen as omnipotent (all-powerful), omnipresent (all-present), omniscient (all-knowing) and omnibenevolent (all-loving). Yet, some of these characteristics seem to contradict one another when you really think about it.
But back to the main point I was trying to make, why doesn't everyone get in?
Here's the conundrum that's been bugging me for a while. In a sense, God being omnibenevolent is flawed. He claims that He loves everyone the same, yet not all are granted access to Heaven. Wouldn't an all-loving God have everyone predestined for Heaven? Including salvation? I mean, not everyone goes to Heaven which is why Hell exists. But why would an all-loving God send people to Hell? And how does He choose who gets to go to Heaven and who doesn't? Really, it just seems to me like salvation is illogical and unjustified. Just purely based off luck. Many will then counter this claim with the "free-will argument." God has given us free will so some will make the wrong decision and live a life of sin, leading us to eternal damnation. But if we have free will and make our own decisions, then God truly isn't omniscient, right? He doesn't know what happens next because we have the power to choose our own paths. BUT, if He does know what we are going to do next and consciously knows that we are going to deny Him, then it contradicts His omnibenevolence (and the cycle can go on forever).
Now this is where philosophers will chime in and defend God with some "law of nature" and "law of the universe" claims, but that is a completely different tangent I can go off on. The problem I'm trying to tackle really is how to solve this conundrum. Is there really a way to logically explain God's divinity in regards to who makes it to Heaven?
Overall, I just find it baffling as to how claiming a few words can grant an individual into eternal life. In my head, it seems that it's luck if you happen to find your way in. I am not saying that I deny the existence of a greater being, but I just believe that there or may not be some flaws about God and His power.
