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What is there to do in heaven?
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Francine
Well-Known Member
If we do, it will have to be afternoon delight, for "...there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever." (Rev 22:5)
Sola'lor
LDSUJC
What's the refernce for that?
How is sleeping with virgins heavenly? I would think people who go to heaven are not punished by having to sleep with virgins.
The way I interpret heaven can be defined in these relative terms:
GOOD - Utterly blissful, indulgent, free from suffering or knowledge of suffering, beautiful, vibrant, and anything one can imagine that makes oneself happy.
BAD - Completely ignorant of the sufferings of others, isolated from helping others except maybe one's own kind (although existence in heaven is more self-indulgent than anything I can imagine), and eventually impermanent........one day that blissful existence will end, and there is nowhere to go except down.
Kind of puts a damper on this concept of heaven, doesn't it? That is, when put in the context that others are suffering while one exists in a heavenly state, and one simply ceases to care anymore...........
Peace,
Mystic
GOOD - Utterly blissful, indulgent, free from suffering or knowledge of suffering, beautiful, vibrant, and anything one can imagine that makes oneself happy.
BAD - Completely ignorant of the sufferings of others, isolated from helping others except maybe one's own kind (although existence in heaven is more self-indulgent than anything I can imagine), and eventually impermanent........one day that blissful existence will end, and there is nowhere to go except down.
Kind of puts a damper on this concept of heaven, doesn't it? That is, when put in the context that others are suffering while one exists in a heavenly state, and one simply ceases to care anymore...........
Peace,
Mystic
Francine
Well-Known Member
"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." -- Paul of Tarsus
Sola'lor
LDSUJC
Right, flesh and blood can't, but flesh and bone can.
HERESY! JERKY IS ALREADY DIVINE!!!
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
Great thoughts, Mystic. There is kind of a disconnect for people who believe Heaven is blissful and that Hell is inhabited. They would have completely given up their empathy.
tomspug
Absorbant
What is the point of this thread? No one knows what heaven is like, and the Bible doesn't try to explain it to us. I like to think that whatever it is, we will like it a million times more than the life we have now. That's good enough for me.
Francine
Well-Known Member
The point of this thread is that people go around converting others to Christianity to save them from the eternal agonies of the damned, which they explain in exquisite detail, but there isn't much on the positive side to recommend salvation. So it's basically Jesus, in a nice Italian suit, going, "Howyadoin'? Dats a nice soul you got dere, be a shame if anything happened to it. Capice?"
Vasilisa Jade
Formerly Saint Tigeress
Originally Posted by Saint Tigeress
Maybe God will allow commerce. We can sell snow cones to the devil.lol
Of course hun. You are pretty firey n smokey even now. You get *free* snow cones if you let me visit and roast marshmellows with ya
lunamoth
Will to love
I've always wanted to play the harp. Or the bass. Either one.
Francine
Well-Known Member
Maybe they have a bass harp.
Vasilisa Jade
Formerly Saint Tigeress
I think I am beginning to sway away from believing in hell. Seems like hell is overrated and heaven is inflated. I would like to believe that an afterlife has more depth and complexity than simply a happy place and a burny torturous place. I's like to believe there will be many different kinds of happy places and many different kinds of "bad" places. Wherever I end up, I just hope I can still find my friends, family, and my pets:bounce Without that it would truly be hell for me.
"Eternal salvation suffers from inflation..."
-Otep Shamaya
kai
ragamuffin
its fundamentally flawed the whole notion , i have already asked and no one picked up on it , if i died tonight and went to heaven then how do i change ? ,what is left of me ?that i will not despair in being parted from my family, if something is done that i no longer miss them or want to be with them then thats not heaven is it? think about it !
To serve God forever, and if ya don't want to serve him here, heaven will not be anything you want to expereince.
Don Penguinoini
Modi.
Prasie god... do what we want?
