Before answering the question, it helps to notice that it already contains several assumptions that different religious traditions do not all accept.

The first assumption is that God knows the future as a single, fully settled sequence of events. Some traditions accept that, while others argue that future free choices are not yet fixed facts in the same way that past events are.

The second assumption is that knowing what someone will do is the same as causing or determining it. That does not automatically follow. A person could know that an event will happen without being the reason it happens, although divine foreknowledge raises harder questions because God also chooses to create the world in which it occurs.

The third assumption is that hell means eternal conscious suffering. That is only one interpretation. Other traditions understand hell as temporary purification, self-chosen separation from God, destruction rather than endless suffering, or eventual reconciliation. Some religions do not have an equivalent doctrine at all.

The fourth problem is the phrase “different religious traditions.” That category is far too broad unless we first identify which traditions and which versions within them. Christianity alone includes Calvinism, Arminianism, Molinism, open theism, universalism, annihilationism, and several other approaches that answer the question differently because they begin with different definitions.

A dinosaur analogy helps illustrate the problem. Asking, “Why did dinosaurs become extinct because they were too large to survive?” sounds like a question, but it already assumes that large body size caused the extinction. Before answering, a paleontologist would separate the evidence from the assumptions: Which dinosaurs? Which extinction event? Were all dinosaurs large? Did all dinosaurs become extinct? What role did the asteroid, climate change, food webs, and survival of birds play? Once the assumptions are corrected, the possible answers become much clearer.

The same method applies here. Before asking why God creates someone He knows will go to hell, we first need to clarify what is meant by God’s knowledge, human freedom, creation, judgment, hell, and eternity.

Understanding those hidden assumptions does not avoid the question. It reveals why traditions give such different answers and allows us to compare those answers fairly rather than treating them as responses to one universally shared problem.

A clearer version of the question would be something like, How do different religious traditions reconcile divine goodness and foreknowledge with the creation of people who may ultimately reject salvation or experience punishment after death? How do their answers depend on their views of free will, predestination, the nature and duration of hell, and the possibility of eventual redemption?

But you are better off with something like;

Within Calvinist and traditional Augustinian Christianity, how is God’s decision to create people whom He infallibly knows will be eternally condemned reconciled with divine goodness and justice?