RE: Is there free will in Heaven?
April 8, 2021 at 2:01 am
(This post was last modified: April 8, 2021 at 3:00 am by Fake Messiah.)
(March 25, 2021 at 2:39 pm)Five Wrote: Is there free will in Heaven?
I guess I could tell you that "Heaven" is a made-up place so it is whatever you make it up to be. And since this is in Christian subforum, Christians did make it up as a totalitarian place where there does not seem to be any free will. You could even call it a celestial North Korea. I mean take Dante who removed from Heaven and placed into Hell everyone who thinks even a little bit more different than a narrow number of members of a particulate Christian denomination. So not only did he remove from Heaven all old greek philosophers, Muslims, Jews, but also Christians with other ideas who were regarded as heretics - and what do all these people have in common is that they just think differently, they are not bad people and certainly not worst than Christians - a lot of them are even better, but the taught is what counts to that dictator that runs Heaven.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"