Hello Mike, thanks for responding.

It's a great question. Why can't God save everyone?

The answer is in Genesis 1: God gives us dominion.

We aren't robots. We have wills. God made us with the ability to steward our own lives, to make our own choices.

That means we can choose to accept God's salvation or reject it.

Hell isn't outside you. It's not a prison you can be thrown in unjustly. If it was, God could simply destroy the prison.

Isaiah 6 reveals what hell is: the suffering brought about by our own sins. Our own sins torture us. Isaiah was tormented by the agony of his own sins, until God forgave him.

God wants to forgive everyone. Jesus wants it so much He died on the Cross to make it possible.

But you have dominion.

You can choose to accept it or reject it.

God used His unlimited creative power to create children in His image, human beings with minds of their own, with the ability to make genuine choices and experience the consequences of those choices.

That's what God, in His all-wisdom, chose to do. Why? Because love requires will. He wanted children to love who could love Him back. Love requires the freedom to choose.

God used His all-powerfulness to make children who could genuinely, fully love Him and love each other. That's the world God wanted to make.

So that's what He made.

Our ability to love requires the ability to choose.

If we choose to reject God, it grieves Him terribly, but it is an ability He created us with. He can't remove our ability to make genuine choices without destroying who we are.

Try to imagine your sense of self if you can't make a decision. Try to imagine going through your life without ever being able to think, ponder, choose, debate, or analyze.

Our existence is so tightly interwoven with our ability to choose that you can't separate them.

God can't remove our ability to choose without destroying who we are, and God has no desire to destroy who we are.