+ Why do Christians wish to live a euphoric afterlife?

Question

Euphoria is meaningless as it is self-gratifying. If euphoria was meaningful, we'd all be on heroin. I know the sadness of the world gives us heavy hearts, but we can use our pain to lessen the pain of others, and in the end, our struggles and hardships will bond us.

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Why is it bad logic? You like being human don't you? To feel and think and contemplate...you give those things up when you go to Heaven.

Why do you want to give up thought? They're nothing to fear; we can use them to better society.

missy...that sounds like being dead to me.

Answer 1

The Bible doesn't say it's euphoric. It also doesn't say we'll cease thinking and feeling and contemplating. I believe it will be as the earth was originally intended: a place where we are interacting with God and others, without the presence of sin. Just because there's no sin doesn't mean there will be no thinking.

Anyhow, even if everything you said were true, it is better than the alternative.

Answer 2

The idea is that when Christians die, they get to return home to their Father and live on in happiness with others they love who have passed on before them. It is meant as a reward for living a good life on Earth - and the idea, as I see it, is that if you live for others now, you will be able well cared for and live for yourself afterwards.

The important thing to remember is that God offered humans Earth as a paradise with no strife or violence and no learning, no knowledge - and we turned him down. We wanted a world were we could learn and grow and strive and live as we want - and in return for our studious nature, we get to rest when we are done.

Peace!

PS - in response to"Why is it bad logic? You like being human don't you? To feel and think and contemplate...you give those things up when you go to Heaven."

No one said we can't think or contemplate in Heaven. My understanding of heaven is it is a place of spirit, and so physical sensation may be absent, but what makes you think that thinking and contemplating will not be possible?

Some think we go home, meet up with our friends and start planning the next trip back. I mean, this has got to be the best ride in the park - I think folks would want to come back again and again (and even then I wonder if they will be able to get the FULL picture of humanity - get to learn every lesson that is possible here).

Peace!

Answer 3

I think many religions seek to find the "best parts" of existence and isolate them from the rest. Bhuddists speak of all the world and its suffering as a kind of illusion. Others also imagine a life of love and grace without hate or suffering.

Heroin provides the temporary illusion of euphoria. It has bad health effects. They catch up to you.

Agree or disagree, but that's the explanation.

Answer 4

I believe in the cemetery. I trust i'll be there when I die :)
I won't even remember a thing while there. Did I meantion death is so peaceful, yet I won't even know? Tha last thing i'll remeber if I resurrected was the last second of my life.

Answer 5

You are brilliant to know this. But maybe the religious right is watching the internet and writing down names. You and I might be in big trouble in a couple of years when they take over.

Answer 6

It's their afterlife, so they can live it any way they want too... just as long as they don't try to force their belief systems off on me, I don't have a problem with them.

Answer 7

No suffering... Life in the presence with the Lord it's for me!

Answer 8

Bad logic.

Answer 9

Who told you that?

Answer 10

are you on drugs? yousound so wierd