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If you placed a million monkeys in a room with a million typewriters for a million years, one of them would produce the complete works of Shakespeare.
In other words, given an infinite extension of the universe in time and space, anything possible, however improbable, becomes inevitable.
If God created Adam and Eve to:
a) eat of the tree of life and live forever
b) be fruitful and multiply.
Then it follows that had that situation continued there would be an infinite number of persons living an infinite number of years. In all that time, even though the tree of knowledge was only one tiny tree, and even though the probability of any person in a state of grace disobeying God may be small, it would eventually be inevitable that somebody would do so.
Or would it? This law governs events of random chance, but does it also govern free will? If not, what is the quality of free will that makes it capable of enduring for eternity without ever doing everything it could possibly do? If the law of probabilities also governs free will, then there can be no heaven, because again heaven will involve a very large number of souls existing for an infinite period, and that will make further disobedience of God, however unlikely, eventually inevitable.
The answer to this question is more than just a parlour game. The answer to this question will also answer the bigger question: What is it that makes creatures with a will different?
In other words, given an infinite extension of the universe in time and space, anything possible, however improbable, becomes inevitable.
If God created Adam and Eve to:
a) eat of the tree of life and live forever
b) be fruitful and multiply.
Then it follows that had that situation continued there would be an infinite number of persons living an infinite number of years. In all that time, even though the tree of knowledge was only one tiny tree, and even though the probability of any person in a state of grace disobeying God may be small, it would eventually be inevitable that somebody would do so.
Or would it? This law governs events of random chance, but does it also govern free will? If not, what is the quality of free will that makes it capable of enduring for eternity without ever doing everything it could possibly do? If the law of probabilities also governs free will, then there can be no heaven, because again heaven will involve a very large number of souls existing for an infinite period, and that will make further disobedience of God, however unlikely, eventually inevitable.
The answer to this question is more than just a parlour game. The answer to this question will also answer the bigger question: What is it that makes creatures with a will different?