Is there free will in heaven?

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I have been trying to think of this issue from a theist point of view, and I have to say that I can't see how there is free will in heaven. After all, it has been repeatedly stated that the human ability to commit evil is the price of god allowing free will. It is also said that in heaven we have the inability to commit evil acts. So either one must concede there is no free will in heaven or that evil is not a byproduct of free will.

But the angels must have had free will to deny god. I think god learned it's lesson and to qualify for heaven now, they must be those that will not exercise their free will.

My opinion is that freewill is defined by choices. Often people like to use the choice to commit evil as the main representation of freewill, when the choice to not commit evil also represents freewill. Really, the choice to obey or disobey is what it comes down to, because by disobeying one is choosing to not regard the command of another, but this does not always result in evil. For example, a woman tells a child to put a stick down, the child walks away. This is the use of freewill, but the choice has not resulted in evil, nothing sinful happened, it is not a sin to ignore strangers, it is not a sin to refuse to obey people you do not trust and there was no restriction in freewill, the child could have kicked the woman, could have yelled, could have cried, there are plenty of options. My point here is that freewill means to have more than one choice.

Concerning freewill in heaven, there will be more than one thing to do, praising God will be a big part of it, but worshipping God by doing what he has assigned for us will also be a big deal. We already work hard now to do his will, it'll be a hundred times better in Heaven when we're able to know God's will and achieve it well.

We will have knowledge of evil because if we did not, we would not be able to understand what God saved us from and why the people that chose to separate themselves from God are not present. If we did not have knowledge God would not have to wipe tears from our eyes or comfort us. We will remember evil, but in our new state we will be like minded with God, aware of the things that destroy and ruin, which is sin and the idea of ruining the perfection that God has created will be ridiculous to us...really, the idea of creating sin all over again is ridiculous even now. You see, we (believers) have waited our whole lives to see the kingdom of Jesus Christ, the place where he declares there will be peace, joy, love, forgiveness and righteousness. For one of us to make a choice that will create the evils of Earth all over again will be...stupid. God will remove Lucifer (and his followers) so there will be no deceit waiting to confuse us into making sinful choices. People who desire to live for God will never choose to recreate the Earth we've left behind because we remember our mistakes, but people who desire to live for themselves will choose sin over and over, which is why they will not be there, because they chose sin all the way up until the final moment and sin led them to the second death (hell).