Can You Sin in Heaven?—Apologist Sean McDowell Gives Surprising View

[Michie]

Author and apologist Dr. Sean McDowellhas researched and discussed many aspects of the Christian life—including heaven. McDowell recently answered one of the toughest topics and questions with an approachable truth.

“Would you say that [people in heaven] can’t sin?” asked an audience member at a recent event.

Sean McDowell Says in Heaven, We’ll ‘See Sin for Exactly What It Is’​

As an apologetics professor at Biola University, Sean McDowell speaks at schools, conferences, and universities. After taking a question from the audience from a recent event, McDowell jumped into a conversation about heaven.

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Can You Sin in Heaven?—Apologist Sean McDowell Gives Surprising View

Apologist Sean McDowell recently answered even the toughest topics and questions with an approachable truth.

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[bling]

If you take away our free will, are we really the same person?
How can we make a free will choice to Love God and others with our whole being if we do not have free will?

 

[eleos1954]

Author and apologist Dr. Sean McDowellhas researched and discussed many aspects of the Christian life—including heaven. McDowell recently answered one of the toughest topics and questions with an approachable truth.

“Would you say that [people in heaven] can’t sin?” asked an audience member at a recent event.

Sean McDowell Says in Heaven, We’ll ‘See Sin for Exactly What It Is’​

As an apologetics professor at Biola University, Sean McDowell speaks at schools, conferences, and universities. After taking a question from the audience from a recent event, McDowell jumped into a conversation about heaven.

Continued below.

Can You Sin in Heaven?—Apologist Sean McDowell Gives Surprising View

Apologist Sean McDowell recently answered even the toughest topics and questions with an approachable truth.

churchleaders.com

There will be no sin in heaven.

 

[eleos1954]

If you take away our free will, are we really the same person?
How can we make a free will choice to Love God and others with our whole being if we do not have free will?

First comes temptation ... then the fall. There will be no temptation to sin when we get to heaven ... there is no temptation to sin in heaven.

If satan had not tempted Adam & Eve ... would they have sinned? No

If satan had not tempted the angels to sin would they have sinned? No

I don't want to sin ... but I sometimes yield to the temptation of satan and I do sin .... and I ask for forgiveness and repentance ... thank you Lord Jesus for your love and grace. AMEN!!

Looking forward to the day this no longer happens and won't even cross my mind. AMEN!!!

Our freewill in heaven and going forward will be for good only. Our will being in line with that of the creator.

 

[Aldebaran]

First comes temptation ... then the fall. There will be no temptation to sin when we get to heaven ... there is no temptation to sin in heaven.

If satan had not tempted Adam & Eve ... would they have sinned? No

If satan had not tempted the angels to sin would they have sinned? No

I don't want to sin ... but I sometimes yield to the temptation of satan and I do sin .... and I ask for forgiveness and repentance ... thank you Lord Jesus for your love and grace. AMEN!!

Looking forward to the day this no longer happens and won't even cross my mind. AMEN!!!

Our freewill in heaven and going forward will be for good only. Our will being in line with that of the creator.

I've sometimes wondered about this myself. I mean, where was Satan before he was in the garden tempting Eve? He was Lucifer, one of the highest-ranking angels in Heaven, and was tempted to try to take God's place. A third of all the other angels agreed with him. It didn't work out so well for any of them, and are now destined to end up in the eternal flames in the end--all after originally being in Heaven.
It makes me wonder if any of us after millions of years in Heaven would get to a point where we decide that we want "more", and are tempted to stray off course, and then wind up banished to a lesser creation where a newly created set of living beings would be subject to us trying to lead them away from God.

 

[Maria Billingsley]

Author and apologist Dr. Sean McDowellhas researched and discussed many aspects of the Christian life—including heaven. McDowell recently answered one of the toughest topics and questions with an approachable truth.

“Would you say that [people in heaven] can’t sin?” asked an audience member at a recent event.

Sean McDowell Says in Heaven, We’ll ‘See Sin for Exactly What It Is’​

As an apologetics professor at Biola University, Sean McDowell speaks at schools, conferences, and universities. After taking a question from the audience from a recent event, McDowell jumped into a conversation about heaven.

Continued below.

Can You Sin in Heaven?—Apologist Sean McDowell Gives Surprising View

Apologist Sean McDowell recently answered even the toughest topics and questions with an approachable truth.

churchleaders.com

I have a big problem with this persons apologetics especially when it is couched with the current culture. His quote:

“I actually think when we get to heaven, we see sin clearly for exactly what it is,” McDowell argued. “The lure is completely gone.”

This person clearly has no understanding of what Jesus Christ of Nazareth did for humanity and how it is transferred into " incorruption".

"Behold, I tell you a mystery: We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality." (1 Corinthians 15:51–53,)

Incorruption means the transformed, immortal state of the resurrection body, which is not subject to death, deterioration, or the effects of sin.

The incorruptible state granted to believers in the New Heaven and New Earth signifies the complete and final eradication of sin, not merely a resistance to it. As explained in scripture, our Father explicitly forbids anything that defiles from entering the eternal city (Revelation 21:27), confirming that sin simply does not exist there, allowing the redeemed to live in a reality of absolute holiness and perfection.

But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb’s Book of Life.

Be blessed.

 

[bling]

First comes temptation ... then the fall. There will be no temptation to sin when we get to heaven ... there is no temptation to sin in heaven.

Jesus was “tempted” while here on earth, so why can we not be tempted in heaven and not sin like Christ avoided sinning?

If satan had not tempted Adam & Eve ... would they have sinned? No

What you are saying: “Satan caused Adam and Eve to sin”, which takes the “blame” for their sinning away from them, so how is that what you are saying? Satan did not tell Eve to eat, but Eve did what she was wanting to do and satan helped her to justify what she wanted to do with lies.

If satan had not tempted the angels to sin would they have sinned? No

You do not know that. Why not: “If not satan than someone else?"

I don't want to sin ... but I sometimes yield to the temptation of satan and I do sin .... and I ask for forgiveness and repentance ... thank you Lord Jesus for your love and grace. AMEN!!

Do you know how not to sin?

Have you ever been around a group of Christians who know how to keep from sinning?

Looking forward to the day this no longer happens and won't even cross my mind. AMEN!!!

Our freewill in heaven and going forward will be for good only. Our will being in line with that of the creator.

So is satan (the tempter) here on earth the only reason you sin?

 

[eleos1954]

I've sometimes wondered about this myself. I mean, where was Satan before he was in the garden tempting Eve? He was Lucifer, one of the highest-ranking angels in Heaven, and was tempted to try to take God's place. A third of all the other angels agreed with him. It didn't work out so well for any of them, and are now destined to end up in the eternal flames in the end--all after originally being in Heaven.
It makes me wonder if any of us after millions of years in Heaven would get to a point where we decide that we want "more", and are tempted to stray off course, and then wind up banished to a lesser creation where a newly created set of living beings would be subject to us trying to lead them away from God.

God promises there will be no more sin for eternity. We won't be tempted to sin because satan and his minions are destroyed. Like it says ... first comes the temptation (to sin) THEN the fall.

As far as free will goes ... satan and all the angels had that (they made their choice) as far as humanity goes they/we had/have our choice. The choices come about when we are tempted ... satan is the one who instigates temptation not God. It will be impossible for us to sin because we won't be tempted (for eternity)

James 1:13: "When tempted, no one should say, 'God is tempting me.' For God cannot be tempted by evil, nor does he tempt anyone".

Satan was in heaven before he tempted Adam and Eve.
Exalted Angel: Lucifer was a beautiful, wise, "anointed cherub" close to God's throne, as suggested by Isaiah 14 and Ezekiel 28.
He desired God's place and was envious of God's plan to create man in His image, leading to jealousy and rebellion against God's authority.
He wasn't tempted by an external force but by his own internal desires to exalt himself above God,
Sin didn't come from outside; it began with Lucifer's internal desire for worship and power belonging only to God, rooted in his own perfection and freedom of choice.
The "War in Heaven": This rebellion led to open conflict, described in Revelation 12, resulting in Lucifer and his followers being cast out to earth. This heavenly conflict became the backdrop for the struggle between good and evil that plays out on Earth, with Satan tempting humanity to continue his rebellion ... continuing onward until Jesus returns