RE: Will Humans Have Freewill in Heaven?
July 11, 2015 at 2:50 pm
(This post was last modified: July 11, 2015 at 2:59 pm by Randy Carson.)
(July 11, 2015 at 2:42 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(July 11, 2015 at 12:44 pm)Randy Carson Wrote: One solution for this apparent problem is that in heaven, people will have a complete picture of the horror of sin. Consequently, they will understand that those who rejected God - to such a great extent that they DESERVED hell - have been punished justly given the seriousness of the sins that they committed.Yes, you are incorrect from an evangelical Christian point of view. There is no sin one has to commit to go to hell. But this is not the place to get into a discussion about the differences between Catholic and evangelical Christianity.
Additionally, it is thought that people CHOOSE hell rather than enduring the pain of being in the white-hot presence of a pure and holy God when they themselves are stained with sins. If so, then the people in heaven may simply understand that those in hell are there because they want to be.
I suspect that YOU have a problem with this because you don't think sin is really any big deal. Let me know if that's incorrect.
Most humans have neither the knowledge nor the power to be truly evil and only a psychopath would think that any human deserves eternal torment. so will Heaven be full of psychopaths?
The only thing anyone in Heaven would find horrible is the sight of god sadistically enjoying the torment of their loved ones and everyone in Heaven will know at least one person who didn't make it, not because they were particularly evil, but because no Christian could convince them to accept Jesus before they died. But you mean to tell us that god is going to convince those people that their mother or lover DESERVED hell, whatever the justification? What a god! And you want to convince me that I would flinch away from his purity because of MY sin?
You have more than enough rope to hang yourself so you want to hang god too, which is what you're doing.
Why do you assume that God would "sadistically enjoy" the fact that people are in hell?
Your posts and threads are interesting, Rhonda. Some people ask questions because they are looking for genuine answers. You ask questions because you want to make rhetorical points.
But in doing so, you continually reveal that your understanding of God and knowledge scripture and theology to be woefully deficient. It's not that you actually know what you're talking about and have disagreements or different interpretations...you simply have really screwed up ideas that result from real ignorance.
Have you ever actually read any decent books on theology or scripture? Or are you just cobbling all this together based upon your own ideas and those taken from atheist websites and forums?