(July 10, 2015 at 4:26 pm)ChadWooters Wrote: The following verses are relevant to the discussion:Hello and thanks for your input. It seems Drich and GC have taken the discussion off on a tangent. I have thus far indulged them. But to get back to the original topic, as you can see from the title, I did not ask if we have freewill on Earth, but rather will we have it in Heaven. I've heard Christians say the reason god allows sin is so we can have freewill. By that argument, if we have freewill in Heaven then it will be possible for us to sin in Haven. Please read the opening post so that I don't have to rehash it here.
Deuteronomy 30:19 “… have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live”
Galatians 5:13 “For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only do not use liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.
1 Peter 2:16 “As free, and not using liberty as a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.”
i.e. people can choose between various goods.
The god who allows children to be raped out of respect for the free will choice of the rapist, but punishes gay men for engaging in mutually consensual sex couldn't possibly be responsible for an intelligently designed universe.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
I may defend your right to free speech, but i won't help you pass out flyers.
Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities.
--Voltaire
Nietzsche isn't dead. How do I know he lives? He lives in my mind.
