Sorry, we are not on the same page.
God punishes people while they live, and those he approves of get a resurrection, recreation, in Paradise once it is established on earth.
We do not have to be on the same page. Some of these questions cannot be proven one way or the other with evidence. For these types of religious questions we have to come up with an answer we choose to be true as an article of faith. My choice and your choice may be different.
I do not believe God punishes people while they live. As far as I can tell God is indifferent to how we behave. Based on human experiments there is no amount of evil God will not tolerate in order to preserve our free-will. God is clearly pro-choice. Also, nature is relentless in executing the laws of physics perfectly every time. If I drop something it hits the ground every time. So it seems to me, as far as I can tell, God does not participate in the day to day affairs of our lives. At least not mine.
An omnipotent God needs absolutely nothing from us. I don't see why God would "approve" of anything we do.
In terms of the "resurrection, recreation, in Paradise once it is established on earth" are all articles of faith. But I do not believe saying magic words absolves you of sin. It is just way too easy to get forgiveness from God. I think when you sin you have to get your absolution from the person you have sinned against.
I think after we die we will be too busy experiencing eternal heavenly bliss to even care about the resurrection, recreation, and Paradise on earth.
My problem with the Paradise established on earth idea is I hope the Christians who are full of hate don't set off a bunch of nukes in a vain attempt to bring about the second coming of Christ and the Paradise you are referring to. I would like to hope Christians have enough love in their hearts not to kill billions of innocent women and children.
Death to me is the return to nothing, to the not being, and it matters not if you are wicked or not.
There is neither bliss nor torment after death on my page.
Since no one really knows what happens after you die this question must be answered with an article of faith. I do not believe nothing happens when we die. I believe what happens when we die is a very profound experience with God. I like to use near death experiences as supporting evidence to my way of thinking. But even with a few shreds of evidence it is mostly a chosen article of faith that cannot be proven to be true but is just chosen to be true.
So here is what I think happens when you die. People who have near-death experiences talk about a white light. I think what happens when we die, as our brain shuts down and the electrical signals fade, we have a God experience. When we face the light we look into the face of God. We are so enamored and awed by God's infinite beauty all time stops. We are no longer capable of having conscious thoughts, we are at peace, and we experience eternal heavenly bliss at that moment. Although it may only last a few seconds, like car-crash time when everything slows down, our experience looking into the face of God effectively lasts an eternity. Experiencing God's infinite beauty is the greatest possible experience anyone can have. It is the absolute height of what a human being can and is capable of experiencing as bliss.
Some people, for whatever reason, turn away from looking to the face of God. Each of us is our own greatest critic. Many people think they are not worthy to look into the face of God. So people turn away from God during this critical moment. When then happens is the brain has a free-form delusion where the conscious self has omnipotent powers. The brain becomes its own reality. Imagination and reality become the same word because the brain is no longer connected to the outside world. At this point, using new found omnipotent powers the conscious self works out every guilt, every regret, every short-coming until the person rids themselves of all their self-loathing. At this point, the person then turns back and looks into the face of God. Except this time the person doesn't look away and the person then experiences eternal heavenly bliss like everyone else. Everyone gets peace. Our omnipotent God neatly collects every soul and spirit back to the source from whence they all came.
As part of the self working out every short-coming I was thinking something like the following would happen as part of the free-form delusion. You would relive every day of your life. But as you do so every time you sin against someone you get to experience the sin from the other person's point of view and experience. You then repeat each day of your life but while it is repeating you get to make other choices so you can learn how not to sin. You then repeat each day of your life until you figure out way to get through your whole life without sinning. Then God takes you back in since you've been fully rehabilitated. God's power to rehabilitate even the worse sinner among us has no limits!
There is probably no better way for God to win the hearts of people who turn away from Him than by giving them everything their heart desires. Omnipotent powers may sound like a great deal but it would get boring in a seemingly short time. After having sex with two chicks over 10,000 times it all gets a little old. Staring into God's infinite beauty is our greatest possible experience. No one would choose not to experience eternal heavenly bliss at some point.
So in my way of thinking, everyone gets saved. Everyone gets to experience eternal heavenly bliss because everyone experiences the white light when they die. Now you could say it's not fair that Hitler or anyone wicked should get to experience eternal heavenly bliss. The thing is everyone Hitler killed or sinned against is experiencing eternal heavenly bliss. So the people Hitler killed or sinned against do not really care what happens to Hitler.
If we want justice we have to do while people are alive. Sin has to be absolved through the person sinned against, or in my way of thinking, justice does not occur. People want to believe there is justice in the after life because they feel they have no justice in the real life. Plus I think people are just full of hate and want to see other people suffer for their sins. But from an omnipotent God's perspective, it doesn't really matter. It's not like God is going to die if too few people make it into heaven.
Is there life after experiencing eternal heavenly bliss is a good question. I don't think so. I think once you get into the Bliss your consciousness melts into the mind of God and you return back to the source. It's a good way to go.
Again, I can't prove any of this is true. This whole thing is an article of faith. I'm sure you think your dogma is "right" and my dogma is "wrong". If you do, then prove to me why your dogma is more right than mine. Maybe your way is better but I would have to be convinced.
