Happy Easter
God is believed to be the omnipotent, omnipresent, and omniscient creator of the universe and everything within it. Hell, a place God sends unforgiven sinners to be punished for eternity with no opportunity for redemption or escape, was presumably created by Him as well. When the serpent, a creation of God, tempted Adam and Eve to eat from the Tree of Knowledge, humanity was cursed with original sin. As a result, every person is created as a sinner by default, and will end up in Hell unless they repent and accept God. This happens regardless of whether they themselves have sinned in any way. Whether they're a premature infant or someone on the other side of the world who was never exposed to Christianity, they'll suffer eternally after they die.
Because He knows everything, God must know whether each person is destined for Hell. Being omnipotent, He is capable of influencing Hell-bound people to change their ways and get back on the right track, or deciding to send them to Heaven anyway at the time of divine judgment. Presumably, these aren't frequent occurrences. The consequence of all this is that God allows people, originally brought into the world by Him and burdened with sin since birth due to His actions, to be tormented eternally in the Hell created by Him, even if they haven't actually done anything wrong. He must know that some people are destined for Hell, and yet He brings them into the world anyway. Are these the actions of a God that deserves to be worshipped?
Well, yeah, because He'll send you to Hell if you don't. I could understand if He isn't truly all-powerful, or didn't actually know everything, or wasn't really everywhere at once. If that was the case, His failure to act would be slightly more excusable, but He wouldn't be the same God anymore. Assuming that God does exist and has these properties, the only logical belief is dystheism: God exists and is not entirely good. Nowadays, this is rare among monotheists, probably because atheism provides a somewhat better alternative to believing there's an invisible, all-powerful entity out to get you. Fred "GOD HATES FAGS" Phelps and the Westboro Baptist Church are just about the only authentic example of modern dystheism.
The great mass of all mankind from Adam to now are already in Hell. Teeming billions – tormented with fire and brimstone day and night. Every day, millions more join them in Hell. Every day! Does God love those millions whom He casts into Hell every day? Does He love those billions already in Hell? Even as He torments them with fire and brimstone – and the smoke of their torment ascending up forever and ever and they have no rest day nor night? Rev. 14:11. If you believe that, you are one silly goose. The redeemed are, indeed, a great multitude from every nation, kindred, tongue and tribe (Rev. 7:9) – but they are relatively few, compared to the number of the damned, who number in the billions.
WBC Sunday Sermon: "'Are there few that be saved?' Lk.13:23", July 30, 2006
Absolute power corrupts absolutely.