Seems like religion likes to make puppets out men and women, even children.
2006-08-12 14:44:16 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Admit to me that God has betrayed you. For he himself reveals Satan. For God hates sin, and that condemns God. Or else the devil is innocent of sin, for God is temptation and everything is created from God. So God is to blame, for everything.
2006-08-12 15:08:54 · update #1
From my understanding, you will be able to make choices, yes, but one choice you will not be able to make would be to sin or not sin. All sin will be removed and not be allowed in heaven.
2006-08-12 14:50:20 · answer #1 · answered by Vladdy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Are you curious about free will in the spiritual world or in the Christian version of it?
Answering from the perspective of a Vaisnava, follower of the Vedas, the answer is that free will is an eternal endowment of the living being. Each living being has a minute amount of independence. The Supreme Lord is completely free to do anything He likes at any moment because He is the complete controller of all spiritual and material energies. But we are small sparks of the Supreme and have a proportional amount of freedom. However, the Lord does not mess with our small amount of freedom because He wants us to be free to either choose to love Him or not. Without choice there is no question of love.
In 'heaven' or the spiritual world -- known in Sanskrit as Vaikuntha which means the world where there is no anxiety-- there is no desire for material sense gratification. The pure souls there are completely enraptured by love of God and enjoying the bliss of His devotional service. So although they still have the freedom to choose to be independent of the Lord, the ecstasy of His service completely overwhelms all such negative thoughts and desires.
2006-08-12 22:14:25 · answer #2 · answered by Jagatkarta 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Puppets, what part of giving people a choice whether to accept Christ as their Saviour or reject him is involuntary? People who choose the way of the cross do so by their own free will and understand that God's word is an outline for a life of peace, hope and joy. There is freedom in Christ, freedom from sin, freedom from the bondage of death, freedom to know that I am accepted as God's son, knowing the kind of sinner that I am.
God's word isn't a list of do's and dont's, it is a love letter for His children and a guide to show how to stay away from things that will cause hardship and trouble.
2006-08-12 21:53:47 · answer #3 · answered by foxray43 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. The one true God grants us free will. Much of the time we forgo our divine freedom by yielding to pressures around us. Religion can and does make puppets out of us, God doesn't.
Search for the true God in the midst of all the lies around us.
2006-08-12 21:55:19 · answer #4 · answered by Denny L. 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question makes me wonder if being in heaven would require any choices. Will heaven be a state of being not of body. If it is, then no body, no cloths, no hair-do, no cars to be bought, no choices no need for free will. Course the only way to find out is to follow all the golden rules, make no waves, have no evil thoughts ...
2006-08-12 21:58:30 · answer #5 · answered by gingerv 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It will be free of sin, but how does that makes puppets out of us? The fact that we have free will here on earth disproves that. But that doesn't mean we will be "puppets" in Heaven either. We will be as we want to be.
2006-08-12 21:57:18 · answer #6 · answered by cj_justme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Amazing. The illusion of free will is so strong that it has you speculating on it's existence in an imagined after-life.
There's no freedom of will here on Earth. There's no freedom of will anywhere in the universe. (Even if there were a god(s), that deity wouldn't even have what could properly be called free will.)
Freedom of will is impossible.
2006-08-12 23:10:22 · answer #7 · answered by Phil Knight 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Swedenborg states "a perception of the sphere of falsity from evil that flows forth from hell has often been granted me. It was like a perpetual effort to destroy all that is good and true, combined with anger and a kind of fury at not being able to do so, especially an effort to annihilate and destroy the Divine of the Lord, and this because all good and truth are from Him. But out of heaven a sphere of truth and good was perceived, whereby the fury of the effort ascending from hell was restrained. The result of this was an equilibrium. This sphere from heaven was perceived to come from the Lord alone, although it appeared to come from the angels in heaven. It is from the Lord alone, and not from the angels, because every angel in heaven acknowledges that nothing of good and truth is from himself, but all is from the Lord" (Heaven and Hell n. 538).
2006-08-12 21:46:35 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
For someone who is so against the Christians, you sure are hanging around talking about us alot. I have noticed that you make no logical points. Do you have any true beliefs or do you just like to run your mouth?
"Lord, I am sorry. That was not a very Christian comment."
2006-08-12 23:16:08 · answer #9 · answered by LittleMermaid 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes there will be. Christianity does not make puppets out of people!
2006-08-12 23:54:59 · answer #10 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋