I've been thinking that since God is omnipresent, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent, there should be no problem understanding the conflict some have with His sovereignty and man's free will. God has designed the only world possible where the most people are saved, the least amount are lost, and man has the freedom to choose Jesus Christ or not.
Romans 9:22-24 (ESV) 22 What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience vessels of wrath prepared for destruction,
23 in order to make known the riches of his glory for vessels of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory—
24 even us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles?
The question always comes up about the lost tribes somewhere not hearing about Jesus Christ but I believe that God's benevolence assures every man, according to the light available to him, has an opportunity to know God. One suggested that those who are eventually lost are ones who would not have yielded to God regardless of the world they found themselves living in.
Acts 17:24-28 (ESV) 24 The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by man,
25 nor is he served by human hands, as though he needed anything, since he himself gives to all mankind life and breath and everything.
26 And he made from one man every nation of mankind to live on all the face of the earth, having determined allotted periods and the boundaries of their dwelling place,
27 that they should seek God, in the hope that they might feel their way toward him and find him. Yet he is actually not far from each one of us,
28 for “ ‘In him we live and move and have our being’; ..."
Having examined all possible worlds in the logical moment before creation, this is the world that met all conditions and offered the greatest return.
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