(February 25, 2014 at 11:47 pm)jdrubnitz Wrote: Hey there, all. So, the following is an inconsistency I came to when contemplating the idea of the New Heaven and Earth. It's sort of an extension of the problem of evil. Sympathizing with the vague and broad terms of a "loving" and "good" God, it's really more the "problem of the free will defense argument in the context of Christian Doctrine":nothing in the bible says we have free will. It says the opposite. The bible through the words of Christ in parable and the works and words of Paul tells us we are slaves to sin. The only choice we truly have is to seek redemption from sin. This one choice however does not mean we have 'free will' as you have outlined it here. The doctrine of 'free will' is an early church assimilation of a Greek philosophy, and not an actual biblical teaching.
NHNE = New Heaven, New Earth
1. The NHNE doctrine claims there will be no evil or possibility of evil present once the the devil is destroyed, and eternal judgment takes place
2. If there can be no evil present, yet humans still are able to somehow freely choose, than God’s permission of evil in the first place, before the new heaven and earth, was unnecessary.
Paradox over
