Question: Most of your arguments against Calvinism hang on the false idea that man must have a free ...

Question: Most of your arguments against Calvinism hang on the false idea that man must have a free will in order to love God, to receive His love, and to love others. Man can choose to receive or  reject Christ, and thus decide his own eternal destiny. If that is true, then we have a serious problem: Will man lose his free will in heaven? If not, what would prevent someone from deciding to rebel in heaven? After all, Satan was the most beautiful, powerful, intelligent being ever created. All he knew was the presence of God—yet he rebelled!

Answer: You pose an important question. However, Satan was never redeemed with the blood of Christ, so he had no basis for loving God or for gratitude to Christ for dying in his place.

In contrast, the love of God and the sacrifice of Christ will ever be before the redeemed. Our Savior will throughout eternity bear the marks of Calvary, reminding us of the infinite price He paid in love for our redemption. The very throne in heaven is forever “the throne of God and of the Lamb” (Rv. 22:1). Thus we could never lose our love and gratitude for Him founded upon His loving payment for our sins.

Nor was Satan ever born again and indwelt by the Holy Spirit. He is a special case, with no possible comparison to the redeemed. Christ is in us (“Christ in you, the hope of glory” – Col:1:27To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory:
See All...) and we are in Him (“created in Christ Jesus unto good works” – Eph:2:10For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
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See All...,18). Sometimes we don’t live like new creatures in Christ or as if Christ were in us and we in Him—but everything here on earth that prevents us from fully realizing the perfection into which we have been created anew in Christ will no longer be present in heaven.

There won’t be any temptation to sin, no reason to rebel against our loving God and Savior; it wouldn’t make sense. Furthermore, Satan himself is the great tempter of men—and he will have no access to heaven or to our thoughts.

You may respond, “But no one tempted Satan! The Bible never says we must be tempted, but that ‘every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed’ (Jas 1:14). What could prevent our own lust from enticing us in heaven?”

Scripture explains that the flesh lusts against the Spirit “so that ye cannot do the things that ye would” (Gal:5:17For the flesh lusteth against the Spirit, and the Spirit against the flesh: and these are contrary the one to the other: so that ye cannot do the things that ye would.
See All...). This is what Paul meant when he said, “For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do…[because of] the law of sin which is in my members [body]” (Rom:7:19-23 [19] For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do. [20] Now if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but sin that dwelleth in me. [21] I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. [22] For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: [23] But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.
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Describing this inner conflict as the reason why Christians sometime sin, Paul expresses the frustration of one who loves his Lord and wants only to please Him, but fails in the flesh: “O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death? I thank God through Jesus Christ our Lord. So then with the mind I myself serve the law of God; but with the flesh the law of sin” (Rom:7:24O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?
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In heaven, we will no longer be in these bodies of sinful flesh that are in conflict with the indwelling Holy Spirit. We will be in resurrection bodies like Christ’s. For the new creatures in Christ, there will be no more temptation to sin. Then, at last, we will experience the fullness of what John wrote: “Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin…he cannot sin, because he is born of God” (1 Jn:3:9Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.
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