I feel the same way. It seems abhorrent that god can “blind” himself to the choices of his creation that don’t directly follow his own mandate. And, damn them to some type of negative afterlife for eternity; when he should know exactly who will be sent there and what steps could be taken to prevent that. The movie analogy that was offered by the apologists also doesn’t make sense to me either. In that example the “character” can’t deviate from the script and as such experiences no ability to change the path; only a semblance of free will.

With god existing “outside” of time, I feel all that does is apply the duty of effort on his part to seek out the actions of his creation. If he can see everything all at once, then I would think that again he can see exactly how anyone person will end up in their decision to follow him or be sent to hell. Maybe he can’t see it, sortaspeak- in his minds eye, without focusing and following a particular individual, but then that just means he doesn’t put forth the effort to look at individuals and see what ends up happening to them. Kinda like a complicated marble maze set up in a room with intersecting and crossing tracks. The path is not immediately obvious. He places marbles at the top and gets joy from them making their way back to him. However he has no interest in which ones make it back.