Can people accidentally sin in heaven?

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No. Heaven is a place where people go specifically to be close to God. Earth is a place where people go specifically to be away from God. Hell is a place where people go to be immersed in themselves.

Sin is possible here specifically because of it’s structural remoteness from God. I mean, I say possible because that’s how the question is framed, as a query on the realm of what can and can’t happen.

But it’s really a question of definition. Sin isn’t possible in Heaven, but not because you can’t do what you want there. You do what you want in Heaven, but the way in which it happens isn’t sinful. You’re constantly connected with God and His plan, and God’s plan is the endless fulfillment of all humans, so you work with God to find fulfillment, not to hurt people for no good reason.

If what you want is literally to hurt people for no good reason, then you’re not in Heaven, you’re in Hell.

The afterlife is predicated on what humans love and want to experience. And the basic distinction between loves and wants is, are these loves and wants specifically tailored towards gratifying self, or towards helping and fulfilling others.

Think really carefully on this, it doesn’t sound like such a fundamental distinction. But it really is, enough to where all of the afterlife is structurally based on this distinction.

When you die, you go through an elaborate induction ritual where your Earthly life is gradually ‘processed’ out. One part of this ritual is you’ll free time and space where you are the God of your world and can experience and do anything you want. Your awareness, perception, and self are unbroken, and so it’s a bit like you found a genie’s lamp and get unlimited wishes.

Eventually you get tired of gratifying the desires Earthly life left you with, like a kid in a candy store eventually getting sick of sickly sweet stuff. Once all this stuff simmers off then the real work begins of discovering your true self, which had developed alongside your conscious desires. Whatever it is, it will be deeper than the base desires that you’d just gotten tired of. And it’ll be way closer to something that indicates whether you’d be happier in Heaven or Hell, and specifically where. The middle layers can be hard to distinguish if you’re not super-perceptive.

Once you’ve found stability in self-directed purpose, this is when you are finally ‘released’ into the afterlife. You’ll find a neighborhood and a fresh batch of friends who you’ll find are way better suited to you than your Earthly friends ever could have been. Nobody is alone in the afterlife, and if your connection with your Earth friends was strong enough, you’ll maintain a friendship with them in the afterlife, much like how some of your friends from college managed to stick around in your life after you graduated, and the vast majority didn’t.

People who find themselves in Hell typically don’t tend to last long there. Hell leads inevitably to a place I call ‘stasis’. You just eventually run out of any sort of will to go on, and once that happens, you fall into a deep sleep and wake up into another material body to give it another go. Those who developed in ways that ensure they will find themselves in Heaven will have more coherent selves that can experience more before their selves fall apart.

What causes selves to fall apart is told to us by Buddhism. Existence is pain, things forever change, and self is illusory. Development of self creates an enlightened state that can perceive the true nature of things better. When perception is developed to the point where a person is indistinguishable from God, that person is fully enlightened and the cycle of death and rebirth ceases.

All the above steps, the painstaking processing that people go through in order to gain entry into the afterlife, are there both to help individuals discover self, other, and the eternal, but also to protect people from having to experience distressing and awful things in the afterlife that they don’t want to experience. No sin in Heaven. It’s set up that way, to such an amazing extent that sin isn’t even imaginable there.

You can visit different areas of the afterlife and each area has its own ‘air’. This affects how you see and think and therefore what you want and desire. There has been described that there is night and day in the afterlife, and beings will ‘descend’ from Heaven into lower states where they can continue on a self-development journey in a different setting.

The spiritual world is so vast, nobody ever really wanders, we are guided towards those areas which better suit our personal wishes and desires. God does not ever guide our development, He wants us to experience all that our heart desires, and forcing us into ‘good’ frames would run counter to that.

So the guidance that happens in the afterlife is nothing like either atheists or Christians think of it. There’s no judgment involved, and there’s never any boredom. The amazingly sophisticated societies of the afterlife just work, people are there that have been there for unimaginable amounts of time and consequently, they know what they’re doing.