(October 9, 2013 at 10:56 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: Not exactly. People become more of what they are. The decisions you make on earh set your direction. The righteous in Heaven have good habits that only get better unto eternity. The wicked continue to get worse because that is the direction they have set for themselves, which is to increase their slavery to the obsessions and compulsions they loved during life. The righteous however are freed from these compulsions and have the liberty to rejoice in God's love and truth in whatever manner they choose.
It doesn't matter if the righteous get better, or however you chooose to define it. It still demonstrates that free will and evil are not necessarily linked and that god easily could have made an existence full of goodness and pleasure that is free from evil and pain. If heaven is a place with free will and total goodness, regardless of whether you wish to explain that goodness by saying that the righteous improve upon themselves, it negates the entire premise of the argument, which is that god could not create free will without allowing evil. The two ideas are incompatible no matter how you try to explain it.
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
