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Originally Posted by Esaias
So no free will in heaven?
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Sure sounds like it.
Jesus tells the woman caught in adultery go sin no more. The healed blind man to go sin no more unless something worse happens. John tells his students that if they sin they are of Satan. But Jesus or any of the apostles then say that free will ends with a glorified body? People look at heaven being sinless and God being sinless, and then say that our own death, burial, and resurrection transform us into a new creature unable to ever sin. Yet the New Testament stresses that we are to be free from sin, living overcoming lives, being perfect as God is perfect, being as righteous and pure as Jesus. All these things possible now. Jesus died, Jesus was buried, Jesus resurrected, and we are to abide in Him. You can’t be abiding in Him, and then at some later date get some jump start to make you sinless in order to live in heaven. We just don’t have a logical outline where that is taught. You can’t be part of the body, and be part of the harlot. Sweet water doesn’t come out of a cess pool. That is the New Testament teaching. Not waiting for pie in the sky by and by.