If God knows everything, then we do not have free will. Why does he create people

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44. I thought some Sophisticated Theology might help.

As I remember, all the Great Church Fathers used a lot of weasel-words and flummery when they talked about Heaven.

Vaguely remembered Augustine describing it as a place where the saved just "enjoyed the presence of God for eternity." Which sounds a lot like an eternal Baptist Sunday School to me. Which is about as appealing as an eternal skin rash.

Didn't find that, but here's one short sample of Augustine describing Paradise. The link is to his entire "Confessions." This is from Book Twelve, Chapter IX. It should clear up any questions about Heaven...chortle...:

9. And therefore the Spirit, the Teacher of thy servant,[470] when he mentions that "in the beginning thou madest heaven and earth," says nothing about times and is silent as to the days. For, clearly, that heaven of heavens which thou didst create in the beginning is in some way an intellectual creature, although in no way coeternal with thee, O Trinity.

Yet it is nonetheless a partaker in thy eternity. Because of the sweetness of its most happy contemplation of thee, it is greatly restrained in its own mutability and cleaves to thee without any lapse from the time in which it was created, surpassing all the rolling change of time. But this shapelessness -- this earth invisible and unformed -- was not numbered among the days itself. For where there is no shape or order there is nothing that either comes or goes, and where this does not occur there certainly are no days, nor any vicissitude of duration.

http://www.ourladyswarriors.org/saints/augcon12.htm