Perseverance: Will There Be Free Will in Heaven?

Those who oppose the doctrine of the perseverance of the saints (also misleadingly called "eternal security" or "once saved always saved"), especially Catholics and Mormons, claim that we have free will, so we can will to leave our saved state. They never have  have Scripture for this supposed free will. Rather, they insist that it is necessary, in order for people truly to love God or sincerely to obey Him. When I ask, According to what standard?, they usually accuse me of turning men into automatons.

The point is that their objection is emotional, not rational or biblical. It is also cultural, reflecting an American attitude of "fairness." Other cultures don't have that problem. Watch them turn cross-eyed if you make any of these objections to the worshipers of free will!

They have another problem: Are we able to decide in heaven that we have changed our free wills about being there? I know of no one who says so, not even the rankest of Pelagians. When I have asked that question, the response has been that we will be sinless there. Of course we will! Praise God for that! But it doesn't change the question. Doesn't a sinless person have free will? If yes, then why can he not choose to cease being sinless and abandon Heaven? And if not, what happens to their insistence that free will is necessary?

More importantly, if he doesn't have free will in Heaven, then why? If the denial of free will, as the Arminian uses it, in this life creates automatons, and that is too horrible to contemplate, then why can we contemplate automatons in Heaven? 

Does this not prove that it is irrational to assert as a necessity that men have a free will, such that we are autonomous from the decrees of God? It clearly does. And worse, does it not represent the same temptation given to Adam by Satan (Genesis 3:5)? It is incumbent on the advocate of such free will to demonstrate a distinction. I deny that there is one..