OK, let's try this question one more time.?

Question

Yesterday I asked whether or not there can be free will in a perfect afterlife. Many people responded that, yes, there will be both free will and a complete lack of sin at some point in the future, because God will somehow change the nature of people and/or the earth so that we will never have any reason to choose to sin.

Follow-up question: If it is possible that God can create a place like that, or if it's possible for human nature to be like that, why didn't God make it like that from the very beginning? Why should we be suffering through this imperfect existence?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

In the beginning before the fall of Satan, we had free will and (I can not say no sin because I can't remember it) little sin, There was war, then God made man Flesh, Flesh has great desire to the point the God almost repented for making man Flesh, but here we are. Soon it will be as in the beginning. Again I do not know if there will be sin or the ability to sin, but we will have still free will.

Answer 3

Steven Steven, first, did you attend the funeral of your friend? How did it go and how did you feel?

Now to your refined question, there is no life after life, it is all a myth! A life is given shape by human, and that life comes to an end when the body stops functioning, like any other machines! All the other pertinent explanations are just created by human to suit different needs and situations! Whatever happens in one's life is the result of one's own actions or inactions - positive or negative - and depending on what one does, one may consider one's life as perfect or imperfect. It is a myth to attribute all that to some unknown and unseen power when that power is there in everyone!

Answer 4

well first youd have to believe in free will. and according to Christians, if God knows everything that will happen, then technically that negates free will, your choices have already been made. so if Gods plan for me is to non-Christian the rest of my life, and he knows thats how im goign to be, then do i really have a choice to become Christian? so either God would be wrong or theres no free will. and Perhaps God isnt as perfect as the Bible states, after all he was disappointed at what he created, during the time of noah when he sends the flood to clean humanity (being it because "angels" came down and reproduced with humans, creating a race called the nephilim which were like giants in relation to humans, (david and Goliath - Goliath was a nephilim)) either way if God created something that was perfect in his eyes why would he be disappointed if he knew everything was going to happen that way anyway. But then you gotta ask yourself. Where did evil come from? if God is the one and only he himself created evil, and then you ask Why would God, being pure and holy, create something so unpure? and if God was only good, where would evil come from? evil came from nothing to existance? everything comes from something. the world was created through Gods imagination?

Answer 5

It is the nature of perfection to be infinite. Since God has always been and always will be, he can conclusively be considered "perfect," because he has, from our perspective, already completed the action of being perfect forever.

The most that a non-infinite creature could have was "potential perfection." Since humans were created as finite beings, (and indeed, no created being could be infinite by definition) humans thus were only potentially perfect. Potential perfection implies potential imperfection.

That's how God made humans perfect beings, but not perfect without the opportunity to sin. It's also why heaven is "outside of time," because if we were not infinite in heaven, there would be no real perfection, only potential perfection, and thus, potential sin. The moment one enters into heaven, one is at the end of time.

Answer 6

It is because of Lucifer, who began the war for human souls.

Why did God create Lucifer? Because God is a creator.

Why did God give Lucifer freewill? Because God is able to create all but one thing: another God. That is, every being that he creates cannot be God. And so it follows that the beings he creates will have the possibility in them to turn against God.

Without freewill, there can be no love. God loves us because we are not him. That is, if God did not give us (and his angels) the chance to hate him, our love for him would mean nothing. It would be just programmed into us...and then it wouldn't be love but would be a program.

Whoever answered you yesterday was speculating. We don't know what the afterlife will be like, precisely. So who knows if there will be freewill?

But anyway, I hope that I answered your question. We are "suffering through this imperfect existence" because God loves us enough to give us a choice. If he gave us no choice, we would be enslaved...which is not love.

Answer 7

I believe there may be free will after the new Heaven and the new earth are created.

This free will could be very different than the free will we know as humans right now.

I would describe it as closer to the free will that the angels enjoy. They are in the presence of God and he gives them specific jobs to accomplish. Now as in the glimpse we get of angels after Moses' death, we know that they disagreed about what to do with Moses body. This is the free will that I am thinking we may have, not the free will of if and when we want to worship God or not, or even the free will of how we want to worship God. None of that will exist. We will worship God in his will and his way, but still have decision making abilites to carry out the duties that he gives us.

Answer 8

Judging the world, and God before you die, is like a Movie Critic walking out of the theater, before the end of the show. He couldn't possibly give an honest review.

So too, Judgement should be reserved for those who have left this mortal existance. We suffer, because our ancesstors Judged, and because we are much like them. Teach your children not to Judge God, so that their children will not suffer as much. I should say also, to accept God's world, you have to forgive and forget. That talent is rare, and just like accusation, forgiveness began with one person. Learn forgiveness with Christ. Pray for it with every meal, make it a part of your spiritual diet. If you hunger, eat the bread of life...

I asked this in a different way,http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AoMmI5wsFYez2J7IY6lwOzLsy6IX?qid=20060814002252AA6tdTB

Answer 9

according to religious people "GOD" tried to create a perfect world. Eve destroyed that when she used her free will to bite into the apple of knowledge. (notice how having knowledge, questioning is portrayed as a sin). Eve did this due to Satans influence (wanting knowledge is Satan's work)
There is also the argument that "GOD" test us mere humans to see if we are "worthy" to enter his heavenly realm.
It is a mythological BS that doesn't add up.

Answer 10

It's all mythology.

Not only is god a myth, free will is an illusion.

As a matter of fact it's the illusion of free will that help lead to the god myth.

Answer 11

Apparently through suffering we can come to realize the magnitude of Christ's love for us. Not to mention it was that way 'In the Beginning', but Adam and Eve fudged it all up.