Yeah, that’s the hard part I have. If God knows someone will go to hell of their own volition, why does He create them? How do you think He decides those that will live, and go to hell? It seems there must be some criteria God uses when He creates someone, knowing they will choose to die in sin.
re: How do you think He decides those that will live, and go to hell? It seems there must be some criteria God uses when He creates someone, knowing they will choose to die in sin.
You’ll have to do some studying on the subject, the Catholic answer is too long for me to type. Read the 1907 (1900 to 1918 all the same) Catholic Encyclopedia section on Predestination, it covers your question. How God chooses has not been dogmatically defined, but it’s been studied for centuries.
As G. K. Chesterton wrote, “There is no other case of one continuous intelligent institution that has been thinking about thinking for two thousand years. Its experience naturally covers nearly all experiences; and especially nearly all errors. The result is a map in which all the blind alleys and bad roads are clearly marked, all the ways that have been shown to be worthless by the best of all evidence: the evidence of those who have gone down them.”