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To: Forest Keeper; jo kus
I really don't know. I'm not sure if there will be commerce, but I also don't think our Heavenly existence will be floating by and waving to our friends on the next cloud bank. :) I think we will be "doing" something, and I have no problem believing that different people will be doing different things

I hope you realize that is all our fancy and not God speaking.

Jesus said: "Matt 11:11 : I tell you the truth: Among those born of women there has not risen anyone greater than John the Baptist; yet he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he. NIV"

Could it be because they are glorified?

We know that the 12 Apostles will judge (the 12 tribes of Israel?), but we know nothing about the life after that. If God is not partial, than whatever the arrangement is it will not be unfair, but merciful and just: merciful because none of us deserves to be there and just because it will be impartial. However, the Scripture tells us that we will be judged according to our deeds. And that means there will be eternal inequality as well.

13,258 posted on 04/21/2007 8:41:26 PM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; jo kus
FK: "I really don't know. I'm not sure if there will be commerce, but I also don't think our Heavenly existence will be floating by and waving to our friends on the next cloud bank. :) I think we will be "doing" something, and I have no problem believing that different people will be doing different things."

I hope you realize that is all our fancy and not God speaking.

Sure, absolutely. I really don't know. I can't think of where God tells us of what a "day" in the life will be like in Heaven (as you go on to say). Whatever it is, I know I'll like it. :) We do know that God Himself is very busy in Heaven, having done many many things within time throughout history. We also know that the angels are busy. So, I have no problem in thinking that we will be also, in whatever form.

However, the Scripture tells us that we will be judged according to our deeds. And that means there will be eternal inequality as well.

We're probably at similar ends by different means. I don't think one can be "more saved" than the next guy in Heaven, but whatever "rewards" means will lead to inequality on some level. I don't even know if that suggests permanency. In any event it appears to me that we are purposefully left in the dark on these matters so our thoughts will be much farther away from doing works "to get that thing".

13,732 posted on 04/30/2007 2:28:26 AM PDT by Forest Keeper
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