How do you know you'll still be you when you get to heaven?

[John V]

Is that because you grew as an individual, or because someone gave you a lobotomy? There's a difference. Despite christians claiming they are "born anew" when they accept Jesus down here, they haven't really changed all that much. They still sin. they still go through the same temptations that everyone else has.

Personally I don't want the sin. I'd like to remove it now but am unable to do so. I look forward to God releasing me from its shackles.

I may not be the same person I was ten years ago, but that's because I changed little by little over time, and I changed because I decided to.

Personally I'd say that little of my change is because I decided to change. Most of it just happens.

Not because someone else removed everything about me that they didn't like.

What if you don't like the same things they don't like? IOW, if you see a lobotomy (to use your spin) as a good thing and voluntarily accept it, have you not decided to change?