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What is there to do in heaven?

Francine

Francine

Well-Known Member
The only heavenly activities depicted by the bible are:

1. Praising God.
2. Drinking water of life.
3. Eating from the tree of life.
4. Entering gates.
5. Walking by the light of the Lamb.
6. Wearing robes.
7. Complaining about how long its going to take for God to avenge our deaths.

Can anyone think of more?
 
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athanasius

Well-Known Member
Francine said:
The only heavenly activities depicted by the bible are:

1. Praising God.
2. Drinking water of life.
3. Eating from the tree of life.
4. Entering gates.
5. Walking by the light of the Lamb.
6. Wearing robes.
7. Complaining about how long its going to take for God to avenge our deaths.

Can anyone think of more?
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Drinking heavenly beer and eating divine beef jerky.
 
Vasilisa Jade

Vasilisa Jade

Formerly Saint Tigeress
Maybe God will allow commerce. We can sell snow cones to the devil. :D lol

I wonder what kind of currency heaven would use....
 
Scuba Pete

Scuba Pete

Le plongeur avec attitude...
You know, I don't think we have a good picture of life in the hereafter. Of course sometimes it's best for some things to be a surprise!
 
Sunstone

Sunstone

De Diablo Del Fora
Premium Member
Francine said:
The only heavenly activities depicted by the bible are:

1. Praising God.
2. Drinking water of life.
3. Eating from the tree of life.
4. Entering gates.
5. Walking by the light of the Lamb.
6. Wearing robes.
7. Complaining about how long its going to take for God to avenge our deaths.

Can anyone think of more?
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No bouncing on trampolines??? What kind of heaven is that?
 
Katzpur

Katzpur

Not your average Mormon
Well, I've already put in my application for "Avenging Angel" so I expect to be pretty busy.
 
blackout

blackout

Violet.
Sunstone said:
No bouncing on trampolines??? What kind of heaven is that?
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Exactly!

I am partial to the idea that we bring ourselves with us wherever we go,
and we are always a continuation of our own selves.

If we do not know heaven within ourselves here,
we will not know it anywhere else,
and what ever things have become a deeper part
of our happiness and be-ing as an individual,
whatever realities we have constructed
from that deeper place of artist within us
will remain a construct of our reality in the heavenly realms.

If you do not know what it means to enter into heaven now?
How will you enter in there anywhere else?

There will be many grande piano's in my heaven
(ie... symbolism... limitless music making)
I'm quite sure that my heaven will construct beautiful
winding staircases...
to wonderful new places...

There may even be a huge trampoline in my future.;)
 
rojse

rojse

RF Addict
Francine said:
The only heavenly activities depicted by the bible are:

1. Praising God.
2. Drinking water of life.
3. Eating from the tree of life.
4. Entering gates.
5. Walking by the light of the Lamb.
6. Wearing robes.
7. Complaining about how long its going to take for God to avenge our deaths.

Can anyone think of more?
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There is nothing there that appeals to me. The first one can be done here on earth, the fourth can be done here as well, the fifth and sixth sound, well... silly is the most charitable phrase I would use. Walking by lamblight should be the butt of a joke of some sort, and the sixth sounds like something you would do if you are into cross-dressing or a seriously dedicated RPG/SF fan that goes to all the conventions and learns fictional languages. For the seventh, that does not sound like the God of love we hear about, waiting for the smiting to occur.

For the second and third, eating and drinking, I can do that here, do far more of it, and have much more variety in what I imbibe, and I also have the option of eating and drinking all of the things that are considered sinful, too.

Nothing there for me.
 
kai

kai

ragamuffin
the one thing that bothers me is , how can there be a place that can make me not miss my children or family, if i died tonight and went to heaven what would happen to me, to my very soul that i would forget or not grieve for not being with my children.
 
ironangel

ironangel

Member
Francine said:
The only heavenly activities depicted by the bible are:

1. Praising God.
2. Drinking water of life.
3. Eating from the tree of life.
4. Entering gates.
5. Walking by the light of the Lamb.
6. Wearing robes.
7. Complaining about how long its going to take for God to avenge our deaths.

Can anyone think of more?
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Everything you have never imagined! that is what is reserved to those who love God.

1 Cor 2:9 But, as it is written, "What no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him"
 
GabrielWithoutWings

GabrielWithoutWings

Well-Known Member
The Orthodox churches hold to Saint Athanasius of Alexandria's concept of theosis:

"God became man so that man may become God"

Of course, it's supposed to be an infinity of striving since God is infinite in His attributes.

The two things that really flip my noodle are:

A) What are you going to do while you can see your loved ones in Hell and they can see you?

and

B) How are you going to ensure that you don't become the least bit prideful and fall back to Earth the way Fallen have? I'd probably be there... no more than 15 seconds, tops.

:p
 
Francine

Francine

Well-Known Member
GabrielWithoutWings said:
How are you going to ensure that you don't become the least bit prideful and fall back to Earth the way Fallen have? I'd probably be there... no more than 15 seconds, tops.
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Quite an interesting sensation, to have a trap door ever under your feet ready to spring open the first time you say, "Damn that's a pretty cloud!"
 
Francine

Francine

Well-Known Member
GabrielWithoutWings said:
The Orthodox churches hold to Saint Athanasius of Alexandria's concept of theosis: "God became man so that man may become God"
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This is heretical. God didn't become man, but was made flesh. Man can never become God because God is self-sufficient, lacking nothing, and things which have the capability to "become" greater have therefore a lack.
 
gnostic

gnostic

The Lost One
Singing "Holy, Holy, Holy....", endlessly day in, day out, for all eternity, until you're completely out of freaking, but angelic ROCKER!!! :banghead3

Revelation 4:8 said:
And the four beasts had each of them six wings about him; and they were full of eyes within: and they rest not day and night, saying, Holy, holy, holy, Lord God Almighty, which was, and is, and is to come.
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