(August 27, 2018 at 8:02 am)robvalue Wrote: I don't understand how the traditional heaven is supposed to work. It seems to require us to either have our minds hacked so that we don't ever want to "sin" any more, or our agency clamped down so we're incapable of it.
It makes a farce of the whole thing, because we could have all been put in heaven in the first place, without ever desiring to "sin" nor being able to. Then we wouldn't miss it, God would have his company or whatever, and everybody would be happy.
Agreed, he could have easily cut out the middleman, but then he wouldn't have been able to threaten children with torture.