You see, God allows Satan to ravage the Earth and either directly cause evil or manipulate others into doing so, and God allows this because otherwise there would be no free will.
And also when you are a good Christian and die and go to heaven, it will be impossible for you to ever feel bad even though many of your friends and family won’t be there, and it will also be impossible for you to commit a sin, but that’s not the same as not having free will as I just previously defined it because… you’re a sinner, you wouldn’t get it.
… But yeah, I’ve heard that a lot from a lot of Christians, though as far as I can recall, the Bible actually describes only the seraphim, the highest class of angels, as actually doing nothing but sitting around god and chanting ‘holy holy holy’ at him, all the time, forever.
I don’t think its ever explicitly described that everyone in heaven does that.
I mean, according to most people, God is perfect and cannot make mistakes. So Satan, sin, and all that other “stuff” means that God knew what he was doing all along; that he manufactured the snake in the garden convincing Eve to talk Adam into eating the “forbidden fruit”, and that God knew Adam was going to lie, and yet still decided to be offended and curse all of man-kind to suffer for eternity because he got his feels hurt.
Free will is the First Lie™ we’ve ever been taught. Biblically or historically, we have all been told what to do, when to do it, and for how long and any hint at dissent would result in loss of life and/or liberty.
Never in our existence has everybody had the free will to do whatever they want. There’s always been an oppressive thumb to hold us down from the start.
You see, God allows Satan to ravage the Earth and either directly cause evil or manipulate others into doing so, and God allows this because otherwise there would be no free will.
And also when you are a good Christian and die and go to heaven, it will be impossible for you to ever feel bad even though many of your friends and family won’t be there, and it will also be impossible for you to commit a sin, but that’s not the same as not having free will as I just previously defined it because… you’re a sinner, you wouldn’t get it.
… But yeah, I’ve heard that a lot from a lot of Christians, though as far as I can recall, the Bible actually describes only the seraphim, the highest class of angels, as actually doing nothing but sitting around god and chanting ‘holy holy holy’ at him, all the time, forever.
I don’t think its ever explicitly described that everyone in heaven does that.
I mean, according to most people, God is perfect and cannot make mistakes. So Satan, sin, and all that other “stuff” means that God knew what he was doing all along; that he manufactured the snake in the garden convincing Eve to talk Adam into eating the “forbidden fruit”, and that God knew Adam was going to lie, and yet still decided to be offended and curse all of man-kind to suffer for eternity because he got his feels hurt.
Free will is the First Lie™ we’ve ever been taught. Biblically or historically, we have all been told what to do, when to do it, and for how long and any hint at dissent would result in loss of life and/or liberty.
Never in our existence has everybody had the free will to do whatever they want. There’s always been an oppressive thumb to hold us down from the start.