Will Humans Have Freewill in Heaven?

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Before there was anything called philosophy, religious accounts of man's fate explored the degree of human freedom permitted by superhuman gods. Creation myths often end in adventures of the first humans clearly making choices and being held responsible. But a strong fatalism is present in those tales that foretell the future, based on the idea that the gods have foreknowledge of future events. The myth-makers rarely challenge the implausible view that the gods' foreknowledge is compatible with human freedom. This was an early form of the idea that causal determinism and logical necessity are compatible with free will. 

Sure greek philosophers may have actually teased out the concepts but those concepts were in place well before. The bible and other holy books don't have to actually mention the words free will. 

 

I don't agree with free will. If we have anything, I think it is illusory at best. It sounds like you may come to the same conclusions but just under a different context.

The bible may not have to mention the words free will inorder for people to create doctrine and worship God as if they did indeed have free will. Clearly. The problem though is in Biblically described Christianity we are all described as slaves, and as we have hashed out many many times now. A slave's will is not his own. He is not Free. His will is bound to that of His Master. the question Christianity originally posited is not one of whether or not we have 'free will' but who do you serve/Who is your master. God or Sin.

"Free will" was introduced as a scape goat to answer the hard questions. However the problem is it conflicts with who we all are in relation to God, and it creates inconsistancies in scripture. however if we learn to speak where the bible speaks and remain silent where the bible is silent then those inconsistancies go away.

If you are using slavery as imagery for not having any will of your own AND agreeing that this is the correct way to view your relationship with god does this make you in agreement of slavery now? If this is the best design of imagery a god could come up with then that doesn’t say much about god. 

Paraphrased argument: “Either you are a slave to sin or a slave to me and if you are a slave to me it actually brings you much freedom even though my definition of freedom is not to have any mind of your own.”

This sounds more like antiquated views of pro-slavery being squeezed into a false metaphor to fit certain ideas of how god worked not vice versa.
The fact that you support this ideal must mean you still support slavery today. So the cognitive dissonance lies in your court. If you say you don’t agree with slavery today, what mental gymnastics do you perform to not agree to neo-slavery but agree to being a slave to god?

In reality, we don’t know there is a god and there certainly doesn’t appear to be any justifiable evidence. (We don’t have to go through all that because I’m aware of all the apologetics that are constantly waved around). Nevertheless, a deterministic view of the universe and every action causing a reaction down to the very decision of our next thought / action, seems much more logical. Free will seems to be an illusion within this.