prone to sin. It also lies behind your question about heaven. In heaven, presumably, the inhabitants will be perfectly good and will, therefore, never fall. So why didn’t God create us in this state to begin with? The way I think about this matter is as follows. As I wrote in some earlier correspondence, love requires freedom. It must be chosen. And the greater the possibility of love, the greater the possibility of evil. I think we agree on this. But I don’t think this implies that love must forever