“I didn’t ask to be created so why would God send me to hell for not following Him?” I first heard this in the late 90’s when a guy from my Sunday School class. I heard it again this week in a Frank Turek video when the same thing was asked by a young man looking to be in his mid-twenties.
If I were Frank, I would have said this.
Do you hope to have a wife children one day?
The guy would probably answer yes. Most young people do.
Then I would say to him the following:
You also have a son. He too is the joy of your life, the pride of your heart. You teach him how to fish, how to play baseball, how to tie a tie and how to respect his mother. You love him dearly.
Imagine you have a little girl and she is the joy of your life. You grow up with tea parties, pink dresses, daddy daughter dances and more. You really love her and have a special relationship with her.
But when she leaves and goes to college she falls in love with a guy who is not a good guy. He leads her to start experimenting with drugs. They end up making a dangerous methamphetamine lab in their shabby house.
In the meantime you continue on your business as someone who puts up bouncy castles for kids (pictured above for international readers).
One day you drive by your daughter’s house and realize it is on fire and your daughter is hanging out the second story window with smoke rolling out. The bottom floor is completely engulfed in flames and you cannot go in.
You race over there in your truck and back it up to the window. You have an inflated bouncy castle mattress in the back and if she jumps, she will absolutely be safe.
You run up the window and tell her to jump. “It’s not far and she will be rescued.“
She says to you, “I didn’t ask to be born. You are telling me that I either have to be rescued or be burned to death? What kind of father are you?! You are cruel to give me those options of do what you ask me or die. You are horrible.”
You as a father plead with her to be rescued. You tell her you love her. It wasn’t you who started the fire but her own choices. But if she doesn’t take rescue, she will die.
As you desperately try to rescue her, your son pops his head out of the window. You are horrified as both your children are in danger. You tell him to jump and take his sister with him.
But he screams, ‘I would rather die than serve a cruel father like you! My sister is right! We didn’t ask to be born. You are cruel to father to force us to be rescued or to die.
No matter how hard the father pleads with them to come to safety, they refuse.
He created them for love and they didn’t understand. He did everything to give them an ability to be rescued but they refused. They died before his eyes when they had everything they needed.