Posted on 09/01/2023 3:10:28 PM PDT by Rummyfan
When moderns think of the afterlife, if they believe in it at all, they tend to imagine the Great Retirement Village in the Sky. It’s a pleasant grassy field next to a placid lake, where it’s always mid-September, rain never falls from the fluffy white clouds, and the sun is always warm but never hot. Waiting on the shore are Grandmama, Uncle Albert, and Rover, who you haven’t seen since he got hit by a car when you were eight but is of course present because as everyone knows, unlike people, all dogs go to Heaven. Getting into Heaven isn’t hard. You don’t have to believe in God or do anything strenuous, you just have to be sufficiently nice. Maybe there’s a Hell, which isn’t very nice, but only serial killers and Hitler end up there. So long as you’re a pleasant person you don’t have to worry about damnation, anyhow. You’ll go to the good place, and once you’re in, you’ll spend eternity padding around and making chit-chat about old times.
It’s pretty boring, which is about the only thing it has in common with the more traditional Christian vision of Heaven, where one joins the angelic hosts and the legions of saints in a great, spiralling procession about the golden throne of the Almighty, raising their voices in rapturous hymns to His glory, your spirits united in soaring and eternal bliss....
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I want to live and die as a warrior. I want to go to Valhalla. I want to help Odin defeat the Frost Giants. This I must do. It is my destiny.
Robin Williams did a movie-“What Dreams May Come”, which demonstrated a version of the Afterlife that was a neat fantasy, but nothing more.
We really do not know much about heaven. We know there are several levels. We know there is a sort of analog of a glorified Jerusalem. We know there is no pain or sorrow. We know we will have glorified bodies which do not deteriorate.
Saint Peter says he was to the third level, and he often talks about things beyond current human ability to understand.
Always singing to glorify God is only from Revelations in a vision, which is obviously part of what requires interpretation. For example many consider the horns on “the beast” to be different kings. Not literally horns. “The beast” is often considered the Roman Empire. So, what everything is a symbol for is far from clear in revelations.
I also wanna have my way with the Sabine women. Another plus.
LOL! Me too!
While I firmly believe in an afterlife - there must be something after this - I have no idea what that is. We shall all find out at some point.
Sounds good to me.
I have my Odin’s Raven pendant. I’ll see you in Valhalla…
Until Valhalla….
Or as Jimi Hendrix said….. if i don’t see you no more in this world, I’ll see you in the next one…. And don’t be late!
The only way to Heaven is through Jesus Christ, no ifs ands or buts about it! He is the only way!
So everyone alive before Jesus is burning in Hell?
Jimi was a paratrooper at one time…
No. Read Hebrews 11.
The Bible was written by men.
101st…. Airborne all the way!
For I am the way and the truth and the light, and none shall come to The Father but through me.
I mean no blasphemy…..
If you’re going to be a mocker, at a minimum at least try and raise the level — which means you’d have to read a Protestant or Catholic catechism where the obvious questions are answered — or if you prefer a more modernist (sort of) approach try C.S. Lewis’ “Mere Christianity.” At least if you persist in the mocking, the retorts won’t be on par with the child cynic post-Santa.
Or, if you feel adventurous do Islam for a while instead. Christian-bashing is nearly ubiquitous and has been since the beginning.
This is the only Valhalla thread on FR and twats like you have to come here and pimp your bullshit.
I don’t go on to Christian threads and talk smack.
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