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To: PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
A serious question Mack.....Will we be free to reject God in Heaven?
2,649 posted on 04/08/2004 9:18:52 AM PDT by ksen (This day we fight! By all that you hold dear on this good earth I bid you stand, Men of the West!)
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To: ksen
You call that serious?

BigMack
2,650 posted on 04/08/2004 9:21:17 AM PDT by PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain (Proud member of the Lunatic Fringe, we love Spam, Uzi's and Jesus)
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To: ksen
If you have accepted Christ you aren't free to make that choice even now. It kind of reminds me of the story of the bonds person that is free to leave but if he chooses to stay with his master he accepts the ring and it's for keeps. Heaven too late to be worrying about this IMO
2,656 posted on 04/08/2004 9:32:47 AM PDT by CindyDawg
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To: ksen; PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain
Will we be free to reject God in Heaven?

Are we in Heaven now?

2,657 posted on 04/08/2004 9:35:04 AM PDT by malakhi (L'shana haba'ah b'Yerushalayim!)
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To: ksen
A serious question Mack.....Will we be free to reject God in Heaven ?

I think that it is interesting that the scriptures don't address this point ... perhaps because it is not necessary.

I look at the issue of predestination in the sense that God has setup a process (and context) for the production of human beings.

This process is influenced by our nature (genetic makeup), nuture, life experiences, and personal interventions by God.

It is a process which, I would argue, operates fairly automatically, but one into which, also, ... God chooses to make interventions at given points.

Ultimately, at the end of this process are processed human beings which either wish to align and dwell with God or who wish not to align with and dwell with God.

Satan is an example of one who, in hsi ultimate makeup, does not desire to align with and to dwell with God.

So (according to such a scenario), some of us are made (through nature/nuture/experience/God's intervention, allowance/etc.) to want to be with God.

On the other hand, others are made (through nature/nuture/experience/God's intervention, allowance/etc.) who will never want to be with God.

What I am proposing is that wanting to be with God (or not) is somethings which I see as intrinsic to our individual being.

According to such a paradigm, our ultimate disposition (accepting/rejecting) is unchangeable.

Therefore, having once chosen God, we would never reject Him.


I'm putting this out here to be provocative (as Soothing Dave would say).

These are, simply, my thoughts on the matter.

2,663 posted on 04/08/2004 9:53:05 AM PDT by Quester (The mills of God may grind slowly, ... but they grind exceedingly fine.)
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