Ryft Wrote:(1) "Free will" is a highly equivocal term. If you are not defining it biblically, then you are either begging the question or not addressing the biblical world view with it.
Poor choice of words on my part. In this thread it has been mentioned by you and others that we are responsible for sending ourselves to hell. By free will I mean whatever decisions it is that we are free to make that determine our place in the afterlife. If we only go where god intends us to go, what difference do these decisions make?
Ryft Wrote:(2) The only destination in the afterlife we are responsible for is hell. God is responsible for anyone ending up in heaven.
I don't see how god can be responsible for one and not the other. If god is responsible for us getting into heaven, then god is also responsible for us not getting into heaven. Not going to heaven means going to hell, which would make god responsible.
Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own - Bertrand Russell