Larry Sanger

If you say that everyone is absolutely, you know...

Incapable of feeling pain, and yet they can die.

And, well, that actually is a pretty bad situation, too.

They'll die happily, I suppose.

There's a lot more to it than that.

I think that God knew that they were going to sin.

So he created them with free will and he would have understood what that meant.

And ultimately, you know, we are going to participate in a new creation in which we'll be totally civilized and far more advanced than Adam and Eve, right?

Which matters.

So, yeah, I think—so he knew that they were going to sin, and yet basically knew also what the ultimate consequences of that would be, and allowed it to proceed.

I would have a hard time remembering everything that I've written about it.

The amazing thing, though, is that all of these points actually can be found in one way or another in the Bible.

That particular one can be found in the Bible.

Jesus said that in the new creation, we will be like angels.

And the implication is that no one will be married.

And, well, therefore, there's not going to be any sexual relations.

Therefore, there will be no children.

And the population of heaven is small.

Either not going to increase or it will be, you know, through some other means that we don't know yet.

Interesting.