RE: Will Humans Have Freewill in Heaven?
July 10, 2015 at 7:34 pm
(This post was last modified: July 10, 2015 at 7:36 pm by Neo-Scholastic.)
(July 10, 2015 at 6:47 pm)Rhondazvous Wrote:(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.
Choices are not limited to doing good versus evil. Those in Heaven can still choose between one good or another. By accepting Christ, people start the process of purging themselves of sinful desires, or regeneration, which is completed by our glorification. The following verses apply:
Romans 12:2 "And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God."
1 John 3:9 "Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God."
Titus 3:5 "Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost"
Ezekiel 36:26 "A new heart also will I give you, and a new spirit will I put within you: and I will take away the stony heart out of your flesh, and I will give you an heart of flesh."