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There are several different answers to the question. One is that God may see it as very
appropriate to have free creatures at some stage, but not necessarily free creatures
at every stage. Just as there are some creatures who are free and some who are not, with respect
to those that are free, maybe God thinks the right way to do this – and if God thinks
it, then it is true – is to have them be free at one stage, but not at another. Augustine
thought that in Heaven we would not any longer be able to sin. Another way to look at it
though, is that God has knowledge of counter-factuals of freedom – He knows what free creatures
would do if free in various, different circumstances. Maybe He created those whom He knew were such
that once they got to Heaven they would not sin – they could, but would not. That is
another possibility. There is no reason at all to think that if God wanted to have free
creatures now, they would have to be free creatures forever. And there is no reason
to think that if He created free creatures who in fact do sin, that they would also sin
in Heaven. Maybe they would; maybe they would not.