Originally Posted By: smitty
God knows who is going to choose Him and who will not. He also knows what it will take to bring us to that point.
he knows beforehand who is going to choose him? where is our free will then if this is already determined?

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If this is the case (that evil had to exist or the universe would be a pointless place, we would all be robots and have no free wil) then what does this say about heaven and the afterlife? According to the Bible, heaven is a place without sin and no evil is allowed there. I am assuming (and, yes, I know this is dangerous) that the Qu'ran teaches something similar about the afterlife. If this is so (according to your logic) then eternity is pointless and those that enter in would have no free will.
this is a good point and came up very often already on this forum. it's really funny to hear it from you again. smile the christian concept of heaven doesn't make any sense.