RE: The free will argument demonstrates that christians don't understand free will.
May 1, 2014 at 4:09 pm
Heaven simply is not the huge problem that you guys make it out to be. Let’s start with my earlier statement. Your nature does not determine your choices; but rather, your choices define your nature. The more choices you make the more fixed your nature becomes, for good or ill. Anyone can see that long-standing habits are harder to break than the first few tries. For example, people can quit smoking and never return to the habit, but long-time smokers find it more difficult than those who just started. By the time you reach the afterlife, your habits have gained enough momentum that you can continue becoming more of what you already are unto eternity. You gain more and more freedom because you are no longer chained to the obsessions and compulsions of the flesh. The more you are free from sin the more liberty you have and become more human not less. The opposite is true for the wicked. They fail to overcome temptation and become more and more entrenched in their inclination to do evil and indulge the falsities that justify their evil desires. They are the ones that deny and slowly lose their humanity, i.e. the second death.
