Is there free will in heaven?

[lucent]

Let's put it this way. If someone goes to stab you, God could cause that knife to deflect off your chest. He could turn it into a banana. However, if He did that, free will would not exist. So nothing is happening outside His control, but He permits His creatures to act in ways that defy His authority.

So what you said earlier about no-one dying until god decides they should is not true then?

Nothing happens unless God allows it to happen..allowing it obviously means God decided it should happen. I am not sure how many different ways I can tell you the same thing.

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God is the universes biggest abortioner, given the number of miscarriages worldwide every day, despite the innocent suffering of the mother to be. According to theology he decides to let them happen, even though the free will of the mother-to-be would be to go through with the pregnancy.

So what you're saying is that God should prevent all suffering. Which means that He should prevent us from any action that might cause another suffering, which means we are nothing more than robots forced to do Gods will.

Of course you could construct a logical argument which excused god from the problem of evil and innocent suffering, but can you solve the problem inductively as well as deductively and still remain morally serious? What is more likely that there is no god and these events are tragic and part of our natural world, or that god doesn't prevent innocent suffering becuase he moves in mysterious ways /wants to bring the most people to his side and suffering is a way to achieve/we can't know his mind/its his masterplan [insert here phrase you feel most comfortable with]

The problem of evil is solved by the fact that God allows His creatures free will, because creatures that are significantly free can have meaningful relationships with God. Creatures that are not significantly free are forced into doing Gods will. The former is preferable to the latter.