get to heaven they will still have a free will? Do you think any Christians who enter heaven will ever disobey God like the fallen angels did? What are your thoughts on this?
2007-01-11 11:11:28 · 25 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You will have free will, but when you are in His awsome prescence and feel the Glory of His Shekinah, filled with unspeakable joy and peace... I really doubt it.
2007-01-11 11:17:52 · answer #1 · answered by Sirius 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes I think they will still have free will and No I don't think they will ever disobey God. The angels that didn't fall are still there with God.
2007-01-11 19:16:37 · answer #2 · answered by Angelz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We aren't told, exactly. What I believe is that although we'll have free will, we will also be free of temptation, and we'll remember what we have been redeemed from.
Also, we will be perfected, mature, and complete. What could cause us to disobey?
I also trust that when God says heaven is our rest, He means it. We'll stop striving with Him and with ourselves. The danger will be over. We will, after all, be there because we've learned in this life to depend on Him and that He can be trusted.
I don't believe that heaven is some sort of set-up - a reward that is really a test.
2007-01-11 19:31:28 · answer #3 · answered by Contemplative Chanteuse IDK TIRH 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I doubt as Christians we have free will before we go to heaven - are you free to question your pastor on the inconsistencies in the book? I was raised as a Christian and I still believe that Jesus (if he was real) was a good man but since I felt free to question the books I was made unwelcome in the house...free will...hmmm? How can you lose what you don't really have?
2007-01-11 19:18:16 · answer #4 · answered by Lee 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Probably yes, but your will to follow god will be so high that the other option is unthinkable... so then, you might say no. Find out when you die.
Actually. The devil was an angel before he became "the devil"
if he was able to turn his back on God in heaven, then what would stop normal people (not angels) too do the same?
2007-01-11 19:15:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you are truly living for God, you should give your will to God and let His will be your will while you are on the Earth. Just like Jesus taught the disciples to pray "May Your will be done, on earth as it is in Heaven."
Who knows? It may possibly be like the Garden of Eden where Adam and Eve knew not both good and evil, until, of course, they ate from the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. I think it will be a lot better than the earth because right now we have our soul realm and our unruly flesh in addition to our spirit. The Spirit is willing, but it is the flesh that is weak. We may not even know evil in heaven.
To Ginai : Remember, sin started in HEAVEN FIRST with Lucifer, now known as Satan, the serpent, and all the angels he deceived into following him.
2007-01-11 19:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by JESUS LIVES 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Heaven, Hell and Purgatory
A complete description of my beliefs of/about/concerning the above as of 1:20 am, eastern time, on the morning of December 31, the year of 2006
I believe everybody has his or her own personal Heaven. Here are some of my ideas for how it’s determined, or the options, or your options. I’d like to believe that they vary from person to person and that somebody has a ‘none of the above’ experience, but without further ado:
oA reliving of all the joyous memories of their life, with no guilt, pain, or time.
oA specific place or state only dreamed of in their life, me being an example of this. If I died at this very moment, then my Heaven would be neither the stereotyped and accepted view, nor the above reliving of happy times. My personal Heaven would be a galaxy far, far away.
oYour soul is at peace and you simply Are, a sort of indescribable and undisturbable blissful subconciousness
oAnd of course, the whole common biblical view of Heaven thing.
To be eligible for heaven, your soul has to be at peace with itself and your conscience. If you have an unrighted wrong, your own sword hanging above your head (or anybody else’s rightfully placed there) then you are not deserving of the mellow bliss of heaven and therefore are not entitled to it. In this event you must be in the Void that is Purgatory until these wrongs are righted.
Purgatory is neither Hell nor Heaven nor Life, and thus is Void. There exists nothing, no thought, sensation, or movement can penetrate the nonexistence. It is the cancellation and undoing of all things real and imaginary. It is nothing, the nonexistent, the loudest empty silence unimaginable, the starkest undreamt empty. Knowing that your soul resides here, it is the duty of your spirit to fulfill on earth what keeps you in the prison of Purgatory.
Purgatory is also a limited chance to right past wrongs before they condemn you to an eternity lived out in Hell.
Hell is different.
If after your life (or your stay in Purgatory) you are still deemed morally unfit for heaven, you are forced into Hell.
Hell is where you are banished to and lost in the darkest corners of your mind. You live your greatest fears, your worst memories, and it’s entirely inescapable. It’s losing all you care for, all that cares for you. Hell is magnification of the worst feelings and emotions possible, true love unrequited, pure fear, loneliness, rage, depression, all combined and force-fed to you.
2007-01-11 19:18:03 · answer #7 · answered by marajader2d2 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. When Christians reach heaven, they sin no more. Their sinful nature ceases to exist. They are made perfect in Christ and will give perfect glory and praise to God. There is no sin in heaven. Heaven is not cursed - the earth is and has been cursed ever since Adam and Eve sinned. A Christian will use his/her perfect free will to serve God and that's it. They will not use their free will to sin because their sinful nature is no more once they get to heaven.
2007-01-11 19:15:22 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Believe it or not I have thought about this myself just in the last week,lol. I don't see where it is possible as God has promised to wipe away every tear and that there would be no more pain, He didn't say that it would be OK for a while...but for all eternity.
2007-01-11 19:16:22 · answer #9 · answered by james p 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha! NO way! We will be so happy with praise -- thoughts of disobeying God won't even enter our minds.
2007-01-11 19:17:42 · answer #10 · answered by monica80 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If your goal in life is to make it to heaven why would anyone after achieving their goal squander it by such stupidity.
Jesus is the truth, the way and the life!
"Hear O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is One"
(Shema Yisrael Adonai eloheinu Adonai ehad)
2007-01-11 19:16:41 · answer #11 · answered by St. Mike 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋