096. How could a loving God create some of His creatures for eternal punishment?

How could a loving God create some of His creatures for eternal punishment?

God did not create any of His creatures for eternal punishment. God created all persons to love and obey Him, and to enjoy Him forever, but He created some of them as a higher order of beings with the capacity of choosing for themselves, good or evil. Some chose evil. But even then God did not abandon them, but made the greatest sacrifice in His power to save them from their own mad choice. He gave His Son to the for them, that repentance and forgiveness and life and glory might be possible for them. If men see fit not only to choose evil, but having chosen evil to deliberately and persistently refuse the means of salvation which a loving God has provided for them at immeasurable cost to Himself, then their eternal punishment is their own fault, and to blame God for it is not only to be appallingly unjust but unpardonably ungrateful and unreasonable.