Originally Posted by
Silfir
Arguably, God doesn't "have" to do anything. Maybe the "free will experiment" is more important to him? Less boring? Maybe he thinks, whatever the cost, the experience of a life with individual decisions - free will - is worth it on the whole, even if it means some people go down the wrong path.
If free will is so important, what sense is there to punish people for exercising it?
Originally Posted by
Silfir
Because on earth there are people who are dicks thanks to their free will. The dicks go to hell. The non-dicks go to heaven. Therefore, the people in heaven are non-dicks.
The moment we were granted free will, God ceases to interfere with our actions. Whether he can't (limits of omnipotence) or won't is not really all that important. The important part would be that from this point on we have the choice to do good or bad.
God doesn't separate people by "dicks" and "non-dicks". He separates them into "believers" and "non-believers". There are definitely some believers who are dicks, and definitely some non-belivers who are not dicks.
Originally Posted by
Silfir
Considering the people in heaven are non-dicks, if they do commit sins (why would they?) they are probably not all that bad.
Because Christianity does not require you not to be a dick. It requires you to believe in Jesus. I'd go so far as to argue that the single core belief that defines all of Christianity is that good works alone are not sufficient to get into heaven, but rather than belief in Jesus (with or without good works, depending on your choice of Christianity) is the most important prerequisite.
Originally Posted by
fazisi
I believe human kind will return to our natural state of action as Adam and Eve were in the garden of Eden before they ate from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. We will still have this knowledge from our time spent on earth but we will be reunited with God in a way that we never have been since gaining this knowledge. When we are back in the presence of God in this way, we will naturally act--freely choose--in ways that are good.
A system where people have the choice between A and B but always choose B is indistinguishable from a system where people have no choice at all. If people have free will in heaven, some of them must choose ways that are not good. Otherwise, they do not have free will in any meaningful sense.
Hoping to win with every class, doomed. Archer, Barbarian, Bard, Beastfighter, Druid, Elementalist, Farmer, Fighter, Monk, and ULE Priest down.