Can free-will and Christianity really coincide?

Question

Okay so I die. I go to heaven or hell. But it's my choice (or so I've been told by many Christians). So I choose heaven. I mean who wouldn't? Why do they even have a hell, who's choosing hell?

Oh you meant I choose by my actions here on Earth, well no, no that's not how I choose. That's like saying I chose to pay $1000 to get my car fixed because I didn't get the oil changed often enough. No, when the car breaks down I had the choice to get it fixed, or not..........that's free will, the heaven and hell stuff, is not a free choice, it has restrcitions and the one who make the choice would seem to be God, therefore NOT free-will!

Answer 1

Heaven and hell is not a choice. Those are places where you are headed depending on what you chose to do with your life. You are free to make a choice. Damn the words of God or do what you think is He is telling you to do.
The real free will given to you is to choose whatever course of action you want to take in your pursuit of happiness or your destiny. It is like your freedom in a democratic country. There are laws concerning that freedom. Since it is not only you who is given such privileges, therefore there must be some guidelines that you are suppose to consider to give others the same rights and privileges. Choose to make a heroic act and your country may recognize you, gives you medal and makes you feel you are in heaven for all the accolades that will be given to you. Choose to do a criminal act against the public and your country will condemn you and put you behind bars or worse, sentence you to death. The concept of Free Will is almost the same as your choice of fixing or not your car when it breaks down. Have it fixed and you can go as far as your car can bring you and that may give you a feeling of heaven and ease of transporting you to places you want to be.
Do not have it fixed and you might have the hell of walking to a very limited distance and time out of the house. You may say there are public transportation that can help you reach places you want to go, but isn't it like hell when the bus didn't arrive on the time you wanted or the taxi is nowhere to find when you are out in the rain and you are late for your date?
Does it not look like also as law of nature? Any other foolish and pathetic questions?

Answer 2

You don't get to decide how you want to choose, you are not God. you get to choose whether you want unconditional love and someone to turn to whenever you need it in this life and beyond, and I'm really sorry if you choose not to accept it, but that is your decision. I really wish I could say more, I don't understand why you would choose not to believe in God, what have you got to loose? Either we die and go poof into nothingness or there really is a heaven and a hell, if option 1, i guess we'll both be fine, if option two, i know I'll be fine, so there you go, people who choose God have a 100% chance of being ok, right now you're looking at a 50/50. The numbers don't lie man!

Answer 3

The only hell is mankind's common grave. There is no firey burning place. False christians point to Revelations where it says hades is thrown into the "lake of fire". What sense does it make to throw fire into fire??? The Bible DOES say the dead have no thoughts or feelings. It also says the only ones who go to heaven are to work as rulers of the earth. It isn't an all access pass for everybody.

What is free-will? We have choices. We can choose to worship the Creator or not. We choose to bring our lives into God's way of thinking or not. We choose to lead lives according to the principles of the Bible or not. We can choose life or not.

Consider this: Why should God go to the extra trouble of giving you life if you reject Him? Would you pay anyone for goods or service they refuse to give you? Now there is nothing we can do for God that really matches the gift of life He offers; but, we can obey and live by His principles.

Answer 4

It is like this: Do you want to go to heaven or hell? If you choose heaven then you have to walk the walk. Your free will is having the choice. Do you want to work or stay at home? Stay home right, but then you have no money. You can choose your path rather than the outcome or you can choose the outcome and follow that path.

Answer 5

Freewill as understood within God's parameters. Something like living in a free country but where our freedom must come within boundaries.

As for the choice of heaven or hell, the Bible says we all choose Hell, because it is the default location for those who disregard God. If they don't want God, and him on his terms, they won't have him, and they will justly be sent where sinful humaity resides for eternity. No sense in offering heaven as home to people who hate the Landord.

People choose hell through sins of apathy, and with deliberation such as I've heard fools announce, "I'm going to hell with my buddies and PARTAY!"

Let's say, for argument's sake, that you have no freewill in this heaven or hell issue, and it's all up to God. It's his gig after all, and suppose he knows better than we who should go where. You had no choice in being born, and you had no choice in the name you now possess. Why would you carp if God brought you into heaven? I think you are only upset that He might not.

If that is the worry, then the Bible tells us that it is only through Christ that any of us are admitted to heaven, and anyone who comes to Him is admitted. All you have to do to know where God will send you, according to his choice and not your freewill, is to accept Christ. If you do, you have freely chosen to obey God and He will choose you based on your relationship to christ. Salvation is God's choice, what's yours? I can tell you that I share my faith enough to know that people do, in fact, choose hell.

Answer 6

free will is your ability to choose how to live your life; free will and consequences are different things. You will always face consequences for choices you have made. Choosing Heaven or Hell when you die isn't free will

Answer 7

There are inevitable consequences to certain choices. You may choose whether or not to jump out of an airplane, but you cannot choose to jump and not fall. Falling is an inevitable consequence of jumping. Neither can you choose to put your hand into flames and not be burned, or to cut your wrist and not bleed. Certain things are bound up in such a way that when you choose one, you must inevitably accept the other. But the decision to choose or reject the "package" is still our free choice.

Answer 8

ok, permit's escape out of your faith bashing and seem at it from a in basic terms actual realm. The human physique isn't immortal. it somewhat is going to placed on out, the two by utilising our own stupidity or somebody else's : I had breast maximum cancers, none in my relatives, yet I stay superb next to the Ohio River. each now and then we will not die yet we are able to stay in a coma or vegetative state. we've a former State Trooper in a vegetative state for some years do to a truck accident. Depressed and under the impression of alcohol people commit suicide in lots of approaches. little ones get ideas tumors and die. i are not getting your question guy, with or without God or a God we ain't gettin out of this international alive. Dream on.

Answer 9

You don't have a choice as to consequences. There is action and reaction- that is Karma.

Freedom is part and parcel of Christianity.

All Christians will not follow the same path.
All trees are not Ash trees.

Reincarnation will solve your dilemma.

Answer 10

I think you misunderstand the doctrine. The soul is sick, and the doctor has prescribed what you need to get well. You can choose not to take the medicine and follow his advice and die, or you can live. The doctor gave the ultimatum, but what you do with it is completely up to you. There is no contradiction in either the analogy or in Christianity and freewill.