Free Will vs. Pre-Destination

This is a big question all theologians, theists, and atheists have. And I wondered this question myself for a long time because I found it to be unjust that an all-knowing God who knew some of us were going to end up in hell would still create us anyway to leave them to their inevitable doom. But, this is contrary to what we learn in the bible where it claims that God is absolutely just and loving - Why would a loving, just, all-knowing and omnipotent God allow some of us to damnation in hell? While still tangled in this question unanswered, I came across Sam Shamoun's video where he talks in regards to this big question.

Right off the get-go, Sam admits that this isn't an easy question with straight-forward answers. From the hour long video, these were some pointers that stood out to me:

• It says in many different places in the Bible that Jesus and God, as well as the Holy Spirit (triune God) for that matter have the truest and deepest desire to provide salvation to all of mankind and thus they have already recorded all of our names on the list who will enter the kingdom of heaven. Sam contrasts this view from the Calvanist view which is that Jesus only came to save the elect few, the chosen ones, which Sam disagrees with. It is our very action out of free will to turn away from God that erases our own names from the list (referred to as "blotted out" in the Bible). So essentially, it is not God that sends us to hell, but us that send ourselves to hell.

• How we know God had the truest and deepest desire to save us all is shown through Jesus weeping over Jerusalem

• Sam mentions that Christians will be saved by grace as it is written in the Bible but we must also obey the Law of Christ, which is the 27 books in the New Testament. If we don't obey the law, we are fake Christians. The very simple example Sam gives is even if he preaches all day long, if his heart is not aligned with God and he willfully commits all the sins, that would be blasphemy against God. And Sam emphasizes the latter half of Matthew 7:23, where Jesus says, "Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness!" This shows Jesus damns all those who might do great things on the surface in His name but willfully disobeys all the fundamental laws of Christ, the very laws Jesus preached throughout his lifetime as written in the New Testament.

• Obviously there are a lot of denominations within Christianity, but Sam mentions that all of us are brothers and sisters when we unitedly believe in the triune God and when we believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God who came down to Earth to save us from our sins by being cruicified, dead and buried, but that resurrected and gifted us with the Holy Spirit. All other details we might differ in our theology, but Sam admits that none of our theology can be perfect and we ought to pray to the Holy Spirit to guide us to the Truth if we are wrong. Therefore, believe and follow Jesus Christ, and not the religion, "Christianity"

• Finally, Sam shares that Jesus also baptized people with water as John the baptist did, not just with the Holy Spirit. It seems to me that Sam emphasizes that we all must actually be baptized with water to be saved. Then a question arose which is, "then how about the thief on the cross who entered heaven without being baptized?" Sam responds by saying God is just and fair, and He will give way to those who have never heard or practiced the Ways of Jesus Christ or been baptized as long as they confess their faith in Him. Jesus had a more generous mercy on the thief because he who never followed Christ before came to him just prior to death on the cross, so this had been an exception. This does not apply to us because we are already blessed with the word of God and with our faith in Christ. We currently have ample opportunity to be baptized with water.