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Nintentacle on 13 August 2014
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Soriku said:

1. It does disprove the story. In Genesis, god made humans outright. And adults at that! Nothing even remotely related to evolution is implied in the story. Hell the story even implies that god had no idea of DNA (or rather, whoever wrote the story didn't, which isn't a suprise). God made Eve from Adam's rib. Adam's rib would've had the same DNA as Adam, obviously, so god should've made a copy of Adam when creating a person out of this rib. This is unlike child birth, where the two zygotes (sperm and egg) carry half the parents' DNA and shuffle them around at random to create someone new.

2. How can you know you're doing his will or not if he doesn't reveal his plan for you? Chances are you're not. It's like telling an actor to do whatever the hell he wants during the shooting of a movie, but the director would still want the actor to follow the script that was written. Oh, and nothing about the movie is revealed to the actor either. If the script isn't shown to the actor, how does the actor know that he's following the script? He doesn't. The actor doesn't even know what kind of movie he's shooting for. It's pretty much impossible that he'll follow the script. If so, what's the point of forming a plan (or writing a script) to begin with?

Earlier you claimed that sin gives us free will. I'll quote your post:

God lets evil happen because he gave humans free will. Not letting them do evil means they won't have any free will. Evil effects other people, thus bad things can happen to good people.

If not letting people do evil won't give people free will, and heaven has no evil, thus no evil actions are possible, then heaven has no free will.

Edit: On the contrary, there might be free will in hell! I mean assuming you're not somehow blocked from doing something objectively good.

1. We were talking about the Tower of Babel, not Adam and Eve.

2. You can't do God's will in the first place if you don't believe in him, or continue to live in your sin despite believing. You wouldn't do his will in the first place.

As for free will, you didn't interpret what I said correctly. I meant that God gives you the choice between good and evil on Earth, becacuse it is part of choosing him over sin. In Heaven, no evil people (Satan, Demons, and "wicked" people) are there to tempt you in the first place, so how could you possibly sin? The people already chose good over evil, and are in Heaven. God would have no reason to let people in Heaven have the temptation to sin, because he already judged them to be righteous.