RE: Is there free will in Heaven?
March 25, 2021 at 3:03 pm
(This post was last modified: March 25, 2021 at 3:03 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(March 25, 2021 at 2:39 pm)Five Wrote: Can I choose to disobey God once I am in Heaven?We're told that at least one being managed it, and took a third of the population down with him.
Quote:Isn't that the same as sin? Opposition to the will of God.Yes. You might even call it the archetypal mold.
Quote:Is there sin in Heaven?At least once...maybe more, depending on how you count it. There are alot of angels in the lesser and greater keys, as it were.
Quote:I don't believe that the idea of Heaven and Hell makes sense. Most notably regarding the problem of choice and identity.
If you no longer have the option to choose things that are wrong, to make mistakes, or to challenge/disobey God, are you even the same person?
Well, let's unpack that. The idea of heaven and hell may make sense even if a person wakes up a different person every day. On monday, the person they wake up to be may be deserving of hell. Tuesday, a saint. It seems like...if you have a choice, when you have a choice......then that choice matters.
Separate this hypothetical different person into the more familiar set of all other persons, who are different from you. Does it seem strange or unfair....or unbelievable, even.... that different persons, different than you, who make different choices...may be more or less deserving of heaven or hell (however defined) based on those choices?
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