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Posted on 02/13/2011 4:03:35 PM PST by Salvation
All I ask of heaven is to be reunited with my Mom and being with my wife so we can talk as we did through my entire life. We can watch the Earth and analyze it forever.
That, and having my kitties, and I will be content for eternity. I will never be bored. I will be blessed.
I like you testimony from your dad. Sounds perfectly logical to me. You have FReepmail.
That is a powerful, substantial and profound dream.
When you make contact that way, it is God’s way of revealing to you a hint of what awaits.
I know that some say the passage doesn’t refer to blindness and lameness in Heaven, but if that is so, why is it used, even if it is for effect? Why would one use a false statement to impart wisdom?
The idea that heaven and heavenly bodies are more REAL is described in C.S. Lewis’ “The Great Divorce”. (Unfortunate title, since it refers not to the end of marriage, but to the great chasm/divorce between heaven and hell.) Visitors to heaven find heaven’s grass so REAL that it pokes through the soles of their spirit feet.
It’s a good read, and I’ve found it helped me re-think the idea of hell. Instead of flaming torture it is the ultimate collection of narcissists whose individualism has run amuck. It’s worth reading.
I would suggest a book by Randy Alcorn called Heaven. He takes scripture and give as a vision of heaven. Not that I agree with all that he writes, but it does give some things to think about.
No matter what age we are at death, we will all have the body of a 33 year old. That is the prime condition of the physical body, after that, it starts to deteriorate.
Even children and infants will be age 33, but we will instantly recognize them and they will know us.
This is my opinion.
***Presumably that would mean we’d be something like older teenagers, without the attitude. :-0***
That’s funny. Thank you.
I personally believe that Heaven is not our final destinatiion, but only an interim stop before we inhabit the new Earth eternally. I can’t find any scripture that comes right out and states that, but why else would God create a new Earth if He didn’t plan on peopling it?
Will have to look that up and read it. My parsing of the Bible provides very thin support that anyone is going to heaven, besides Him who came from there.
How is it false? If your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out and endure blindness on earth for vision in heaven.
And that’s even assuming that we need ‘eyes’ to see in heaven.
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Any others :>)?????
Like I said, it is a good read, with supporting scripture, however, he does make a few assumptions, so read it with a grain of salt. Lots to think about...
In Revelation there is a scene in Heaven of a lamb (Christ) bearing the wounds that caused his death. If so, they are the only man made things in Heaven.
Eye has not seen nor the mind of man imagined heaven ... to be in the presence of God ...
Thanks, I understand now.
This is somewhat how I picture it, scattered out across the galaxy.
And as you zoom in its just as beautiful up close as it is from a distance.
We will also cry out for judgement and Justice wanting God to avenge those that murdered those that brought the gospel.
Come close to something I wrote long ago when the topic of Heaven was posted.
The Heaven that awaits us is not harps, white robes, and never-ending boredom which is the perception that many people have, because that is what movies, cartoons, and paintings have showed us what it is like.
The Heaven John wrote about in the Bible is so full of wonders and mysteries that in our wildest dreams we could not imagine it. Certainly Heaven contains many surprises which we will never be able to comprehend in this life. And it will not be boring.
The only way I, with my puny little mortal human brain can even begin to comprehend Heaven and to explain it is to ask you to think back to the one single best day of your whole life. Maybe it was your wedding, the birth of your child, your first trip to Disneyland, the anniversary cruise with your spouse, whatever. Now imagine each day in Heaven being that multiplied 100-fold, and the number of those days will be endless. That is what I firmly believe Heaven will be like. Is it no wonder that John saw All the Heavenly host on their knees worshiping the creator of it all.
I heard it said once that, - “as a Christian, the day I die will be the best day I’ve ever lived. But it won’t be the best I will ever live.”
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