Posted by shyla at 3:26pm Oct 31 '04Real Interviews by Darcy West....these are very interesting....Notice how Darcy remains calm and inquisitive and the interviewer is the one who gets all up in arms about the questions that they agreed to answer.....
Free Will: Interview One
by Darcy West
reprinted by permission
Cherry: If you do not like worship of God, you will not like heaven.
Darcy West: So you believe that some people will sin in heaven?
Cherry: No. There will not be sin in heaven
Darcy West: Oh, okay. Can we back this up a little, please?
Cherry: Sure, backup.
Darcy West: Thanks. Does free will mean that you have the ability to choose whether or not to love God?
Cherry: You have the power to choose -- that is what free will is.
Darcy West: God could program you to love him, right?
Cherry: Yes, Darcy he could. He wants you to choose Him.
Darcy West: Cherry, so without free will, you'd just be a robot?
Cherry: Yes Darcy, if God chose for you.
Darcy West: I agree. So do you believe there will be free will in heaven?
Cherry: For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. For now we know in part, but then shall we know in truth.
Darcy West: Yes but I am talking about the ability to choose....Cherry, you said that without the ability to choose for ourselves...our love wouldn't be real love. Why would God strip that choice from you in heaven?
Cherry: God is not going to remove that choice. Do you believe God would cheat?
Darcy West: Well that's why I asked whether or not you'd have free will in heaven.
Cherry: You will have no need of it in heaven. For all is good there.
Darcy West: Wasn't heaven all good when Lucifer was there?
Cherry: Darcy, yes but Lucifer wanted to be God.
Darcy West: Cherry, well perhaps you will someday want to be god?
Cherry: Not I. My sincerest desire is to serve God. To be free from sin.
Darcy West:: Well perhaps not you, but someone else then. My point is that Lucifer's sin proves that having everything good in heaven will not prevent sin. See what I mean?
Cherry: Darcy: Nothing imperfect can be in the sight of God.
Darcy West: I understand that is what you believe. So if someone sins in heaven, will they then be kicked out?
Cherry: You will be removed from the occasion to sin in heaven. No one is kicked out. Once saved. Always saved.
Darcy West: That's a slogan. Does having a savior prevent you from sinning?
Cherry: Having a savior prevents me from being lost.
Darcy West: But having a savior doesn't prevent you from sinning now...why would it prevent you from sinning in heaven?
Cherry: Darcy, I am 70 years old. I am on "borrowed" time. I do not have time for this.
Darcy West: Thank you for answering my questions, Cherry.
Free Will: Interview One
by Darcy West
reprinted by permission
Cherry: If you do not like worship of God, you will not like heaven.
Darcy West: So you believe that some people will sin in heaven?
Cherry: No. There will not be sin in heaven
Darcy West: Oh, okay. Can we back this up a little, please?
Cherry: Sure, backup.
Darcy West: Thanks. Does free will mean that you have the ability to choose whether or not to love God?
Cherry: You have the power to choose -- that is what free will is.
Darcy West: God could program you to love him, right?
Cherry: Yes, Darcy he could. He wants you to choose Him.
Darcy West: Cherry, so without free will, you'd just be a robot?
Cherry: Yes Darcy, if God chose for you.
Darcy West: I agree. So do you believe there will be free will in heaven?
Cherry: For now we see in a mirror dimly, but then face to face. For now we know in part, but then shall we know in truth.
Darcy West: Yes but I am talking about the ability to choose....Cherry, you said that without the ability to choose for ourselves...our love wouldn't be real love. Why would God strip that choice from you in heaven?
Cherry: God is not going to remove that choice. Do you believe God would cheat?
Darcy West: Well that's why I asked whether or not you'd have free will in heaven.
Cherry: You will have no need of it in heaven. For all is good there.
Darcy West: Wasn't heaven all good when Lucifer was there?
Cherry: Darcy, yes but Lucifer wanted to be God.
Darcy West: Cherry, well perhaps you will someday want to be god?
Cherry: Not I. My sincerest desire is to serve God. To be free from sin.
Darcy West:: Well perhaps not you, but someone else then. My point is that Lucifer's sin proves that having everything good in heaven will not prevent sin. See what I mean?
Cherry: Darcy: Nothing imperfect can be in the sight of God.
Darcy West: I understand that is what you believe. So if someone sins in heaven, will they then be kicked out?
Cherry: You will be removed from the occasion to sin in heaven. No one is kicked out. Once saved. Always saved.
Darcy West: That's a slogan. Does having a savior prevent you from sinning?
Cherry: Having a savior prevents me from being lost.
Darcy West: But having a savior doesn't prevent you from sinning now...why would it prevent you from sinning in heaven?
Cherry: Darcy, I am 70 years old. I am on "borrowed" time. I do not have time for this.
Darcy West: Thank you for answering my questions, Cherry.