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Originally posted by Jamie_L
General Christian view: Something "good" happens to you after you die if you are
"saved". Something "bad" happens to you after you die if you are not "saved".
This, it is said, does not interfere with Free Will.
My question: IF something "bad" happened to you immediately when you do
something that makes you "unsaved", would that violate Free Will? If so, why?
My proposition: The only difference between these two scenarios is the point in time at
which the "bad" thing happens. So, neither should violate Free Will. If that's the case,
God should be able to intervene in this world in all kinds of ways without violating Free
Will.
Jamie [/B]
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Jamie, the Christian viewpoint that I am familiar with is a little different than the scenario you are portraying. From what I understand heaven isn’t so much a place where good things are outwardly
done to you. I don’t think that someone is actively “rewarding” you for making it to heaven; the reward is just being there with God (who is all loving and all things good and all that). Hell in this sense is the absense of God. The souls in hell no longer have the option to be with God, and thus they cannot be happy.
I’ve heard sin defined as something humans do which damages the relationship between God and the sinner. So, sins are most of the time “immediately” handled in the sense that the sinner is farther away from God, just like those souls in hell. The only difference is that the sinner on earth still has a chance to choose to repair the relationship.
Holiday
04-23-2003, 06:58 PM
