if so how can heaven still be sinless if we all still have free will?
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2007-05-13 09:39:11 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The whole work of redemption is to populate the Kingdom of Heaven with people who have free will, and yet will never again sin after the manner of Lucifer. If you are looking for a way around this, you may not be going to Heaven.
2007-05-13 09:52:07 · answer #1 · answered by wefmeister 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Free will is based on choice. If you are in heaven then you have already chosen to accept Jesus Christ as your Savior when he gave himself for you. Lucifer was an angel not a human. Christ gave his life for humans, so you're kind of dealing with apples and oranges.
2007-05-17 09:18:37 · answer #2 · answered by glorybnd 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The ones that are going to heaven yes. But that is a small number.
Do all good people go to heaven?
Acts 2:34: “David [whom the Bible refers to as being ‘a man agreeable to Jehovah’s heart’] did not ascend to the heavens.”
Matt. 11:11: “Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.” (So John did not go to heaven when he died.)
Ps. 37:9, 11, 29: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in Jehovah are the ones that will possess the earth . . . The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”
Mic. 4:3, 4: “They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.”
2007-05-13 17:01:55 · answer #3 · answered by sxanthop 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Paul said, "when we see Him we shall be like Him". I presume that to mean will be imparted with His nature. God has free will so we also shall have free will. God does not sin so we will not sin. The two are not incompatible.
2007-05-13 16:47:34 · answer #4 · answered by Daniel P 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋