Will Humans Have Freewill in Heaven?

[Jenny A]

Do people have the capacity to sin in heaven?

Why would they?

Because if they are still people after resurrection, they will still behave like people.

If heaven is without sin: either:  (1) people are changed upon entering heaven so that they lack the capacity or the will to sin (a violation of free will and rather Stepford Wife like--ick); or (2) heaven itself must be designed in such a way as to prevent sin (a violation of free will rather Big Brother Like--ick); or (3) everything is so wonderful that no one will want to sin (really, really hard to imagine and calls into question why this world was ever created); or (4) god changes the rules so that nothing is a sin any longer (making the idea of morality completely arbitrary).

In the first two possibilities free will is the ultimate thing god must not deprive people of on earth and the thing he must deprive people of in heaven.  Very puzzling that.  In the third we have to wonder why this world was created at all since a much better one is possible (if it is indeed possible).   In the fourth, morality is completely arbitrary calling into question any need for hell let alone Jesus' sacrifice.

What this puzzle says to me is that heaven is one more deeply flawed idea of christianity, right up there with the remission of sins by the sacrifice of a third party, and punishment for the sins of one's remote ancestors.