This is probably going to sound wierd, but I want your thoughts and opinions anyway. Will there be free-will in "heaven"? If so, wouldn't "heaven" then end up just like Earth? Or, will there be no free-will at all? (I understand that only "God" knows the answer to this, that's why I asked for opinions.) (no need to tell me it's only a fairytale either, I am not what you would call a "believer")
2007-01-05 14:41:24 · 19 answers · asked by Amanda D 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
42yxalag- why would you answer like that, did you READ all of the question? I don't believe you did.
2007-01-05 14:48:12 · update #1
Shayna, I wasn't asking do we get to choose to go to heaven. I was asking if free-will will exist in heaven. Will those who are in heaven still make choices for themselves, or will they be robots?
2007-01-05 14:50:35 · update #2
The Bible says that his laws will be written on our hearts and on our mind [in heaven], so though their will be free-will, following Gods law will come naturally to us.
2007-01-05 14:44:30 · answer #1 · answered by Christine5 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes there will be free will in heaven. The whole point of it is that people in heaven are those who exercise their free will and choose to be on God's side, choose to take up his offer of salvation. God wants friends, not robots, that is why he gave humans free will, even if it resulted in them choosing to rebel against him.
When Satan offered the forbidden fruit to Eve he didn't tell an outright lie when he said it would let her know good and evil. He told a half truth in a misleading way. Even did not get what she thought she was getting, but she did get to know good and evil. We humans now know only too well what evil is, what the results of disobeying God are. We see it in all the evils in this world: the selfishness, the crime, the wars, the plagues, the extinctions and pollution of our planet, all the suffering and death that results from following Satan's advice instead of God's.
Because of our unique experience, those who are in heaven will be immune to making such a stupid mistake again, not because they don't have free will, but because having lived in this fallen world, they know from sad experience the results of going against God's will and throwing a spanner in the works.
2007-01-06 00:34:03 · answer #2 · answered by Beng T 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here's my take on it from a lot of research and alot of meditating and intuitive work. And I don't use the term heaven (too dogmatic), I use the otherside. If you would think of God as a tree and we are the leaves, and we fell from that tree branch down to the ground, we are still, technically, a part of that tree. So we are all a part of God. When we were created, in spirit form, we were given the free will to stay on the otherside or incarnate here or on a different planet, for our soul to evolve. There's different levels. We chose whether or not we'd come in a male or female, we chose our parents, we chose what major events we'd experience, we chose everything down to the color of our eyes. Some chose to turn away from him, other chose not too. That is where the real free will comes in. The otherside is not like earth simply for the fact that there are no 'human emotions'...just unconditional love...because our spirit forms, who we really are, are just like God. That is why we come here. To learn about pain, to overcome obstacles, to experience things that we can not on the otherside and earth, out of all the habitable planets, is the school of hard knocks. Here, we have the least amount of knowledge or conciousness of who we really are, making our soul evolution a quicker acceleration.
2007-01-05 22:55:06 · answer #3 · answered by emmie8750 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Free will is a function of judgment. Judgment is a trick that is allowed by perception.
Perception makes it seem like there are choices to be made. In heaven it is obvious that there are no choices that need to be made. Its just not necessary.
Heaven is just God. There are no parts of God that are better or more preferable to other Parts of God. Free will is simply not necessary.
Love and blessings Don
2007-01-05 22:50:10 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is free will now and people choose to do God's will. In heaven the tempter won't be there. No one who is there would ever think of doing something evil because of the love for God that they have. If evil can even be thought of in heaven, that is.
2007-01-05 22:58:07 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the one that knows are hearts. When he chooses the ones to go to heaven, believe you me no will ever mess heaven up.
We don't know to much about heaven only from some visions chosen ones had for a purpose God has.
The son of God cast the Devil and his Demons out of heaven...there is no more bad influence up there.
Just a few from earth God will resurrect to heaven...he picks his people for that position.
The book Revelation read it all for knowledge.
Peace......
2007-01-05 22:58:20 · answer #6 · answered by Donaldsan theGreatone 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There will be free will in Heaven, but we will not use our free will to sin because we will be perfect. The Catholic Church teaches that, after death, we undergo a process of purification during which we are purged of our imperfections, because nothing unclean can enter Heaven. We call this purgatory. Protestants don't believe in purgatory. Maybe they believe everyone who dies imperfect goes to Hell?
2007-01-05 23:05:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No sin in Heaven.
The elect in Heaven will be "sealed" in their decision to forsake sin and trust in Christ. We will not even have the choice to sin. At the same time, having been delivered from sin and evil, and viewing the wonderful glories of Heaven, we would not choose sin even if we had the choice.
2007-01-05 22:56:42 · answer #8 · answered by NickofTyme 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is something which may answer the question. Part of the prayer is, "Thy will be done." That doesn't leave too much room here or here after for free will to have a place in thought.
2007-01-05 22:45:17 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Free will in Heaven would be free of sin, since no sin in Heaven, so.... it would not be able to deteriorate into Earth's faults.
2007-01-05 22:44:48 · answer #10 · answered by from HJ 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋