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Well, I'm not a Christian, so my concept of "heaven" is a little different than their model. But I believe in something like it, and I also believe that free will is irrevocable. The way I reconcile the two is by also believing that one probably doesn't get into The World To Come (our version of heaven) without coming to a point in development where one probably isn't going to be too inclined towards greedy, selfish, brutal, and ruthless behavior. I also believe in a kind of reincarnation, which means that one could potentially have quite a while to learn those lessons and get to that point of development before going to the World To Come, so that makes the whole framework a little more reasonable, I think....
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Dull sublunary lovers love,
Whose soul is sense, cannot admit
Absence, because it doth remove
That thing which elemented it.
(From "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" by John Donne)
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