Why won't they? People fail all the time on earth, what will make heaven different?
Romans 3 - on earth we all have sinful natures -- we are not born sinless or neutral -- but rather with a bent toward sin. In heaven we will not have that sinful nature. In heaven we will have the company of sinless beings who "Love God with all their heart" and also "Love their neighbor as themselves" and we will have the infinite supply of food shelter science discovery travel family etc.
The whole point of 6000 years of sin and salvation.. vs 6 minutes of it... was/is to provide the sort of experiment that proves that rebellion in all of its forms does not work out best for the society that embraces it. That forms a kind of inoculation for all eternity against this sort of thing.
As I said - I have the free will to place my hand on a hot stove - but I will not do it.
That is not the ridiculous idea that you seem to think it is.
Sin is a cancer it destroys paradise and creates horrible living conditions - separated from God - steeped in ignorance.
From reading the Bible I fail to see where the notion that God loves free will came from (at least free will as you define it..).
John 1:11 "
He came to His own and His own received Him not"
Rev 3 "
behold I STAND at the door and knock if anyone hears my voice AND opens the door - I will come in"
Matt 23 "
Jerusalem Jerusalem - ... How I wanted to spare your children..but you would not"
As Joshuah said "
choose you this day whom you will serve.. as for me and my house we will serve the Lord"
2 Cor 5 "
God was in Christ reconciling the world to Himself... we beg you on behalf of Christ - be reconciled to God"
He specifically told Adam and Eve to not eat the fruit from the forbidden tree of good and evil. He wanted them to remain ignorant.
There was no "brilliant encyclopedia of bad ideas embedded in fruit" -- the simple act of doing what they were told not to do - as "the knowledge of evil" nothing else was needed.
1 John 3:4 "
sin IS transgression of the Law".
The ISIS, Hitler, Stalin, Cain, Nimrod.. result is not "brilliance" or "much to be sought after".
When they disobeyed him God cursed them and spread suffering throughout the world. Was God just engaging in entrapment?
1. God deprived them of access to the Tree of Life - so yeah they died after about 900 years of life.
2. God increased the pain of child birth for the woman - so it is what it is today.
3. God caused weeds to grow in the garden as they do today.
But that world was still pretty much paradise even so. It was mankind that then took it to such a level of violence and crime that God wiped them all out with the flood after about 1500 years of it.
And so then - starting over with just 8 people (worshipers of God) it took many centuries for them to return - as a planet, back to that state of crime and evil perfected so well in that first 1500 years.
in Christ,
Bob
