Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: daemon@garage.att.com (Joseph H. Buehler) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Throw logic to the wind Message-ID: Date: 22 Feb 90 09:18:43 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu Jonggu Moon queries: Will we have free will in heaven ? If so, what's there to have free will about ? There's no choice of evil. Will it be the free will to worship God in one way as opposed to another ? Free will is not the ability to choose between good and evil. Because, as you observe, there is no ability to choose evil in Heaven. For that matter, God cannot choose evil, and one certainly can't suggest that He has not free will. Free will is the ability to choose the means fitted to the attainment of some end. The possibility of a human being choosing evil here below is an indication of the presence of free will in roughly the same way that a 104 degree fever is an indication of the presence of life. jhpb@garage.att.com [Joe: this posting didn't make it out of ATT. It was forwarded to me personally by a postmaster somewhere. I suggest that you check your software. --clh]