...of all their bad memories and experiences? So they can achieve perfect happiness.
As a thinking, logical being, would anyone actually want this to happen? I'm sure there are many things that we would like to forget about life, but wouldn't erasing 'bad' experiences cause us to lose our 'real' selves---we wouldn't be us now, would we?
2006-09-17 02:15:14 · 14 answers · asked by Dalma S 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Lobotomies for Jesus. From the Christian standpoint that sounds about right. Well, imagine your mother burning in hell for all eternity while you laze around in heaven hobnobbing with angels. Or say you had a child who died as a teenager who would be tormented by demons in hellfire forever because he wasn't "saved" when he died. You couldn't be happy in heaven without a spiritual lobotomy, and you're right -- if you were made happy-happy hereafter you wouldn't be the same person - you would be a retarded, blathering idiot version of whom you once had been.
This is one reason why intelligent people who aren't too brainwashed to think things though reject the idea of hell. Judaism doesn't believe in hell, either -- this is a Christian invention, borrowed from the Hades of Greek mythology when Paul took Christianity to Greece and Rome.
2006-09-17 02:22:59 · answer #1 · answered by Sweetchild Danielle 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the scripture you refer to is ""you will be tried as in a furnace 9 times" this is a reference to the foundry practice of the process of producing pure silver. This is to give an understandable take on a process that is most likely one that is difficult to describe in words therefor this idea you expressed is someones interpretation. It probably resembles a truth. My opinion is people have desire to be pure. Another scripture about this subject is that your sins will be removed as far as the west is from the east. I do not understand why someone would define themselves by their evil deeds or for that matter why you might want to hold onto them. I can see it would be sad if your description were exact and you made it to heaven but never did anything that could pass the pearly gates. What would you do when everyone else was reminiscing. If you are just trying to poke holes try using something that is not an interpretation. God luck with that.
2006-09-17 02:26:44 · answer #2 · answered by icheeknows 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Interesting. Since no one has returned from death and described the conditions, there is no way to tell. Some Christian beliefs say there is a way station on the way to your final destination called purgatory. This is a place were you atone for your sins. Catholics believe that most people are in purgatory, and not in heaven as of yet. A direct flight to heaven, insofar as the Catholic religion, is reserved for saints. Everyone else has to wait until Christ returns, at which time the dead rise incorruptable and are judged. I personally believe that the Bible expresses that we are in reality two forms...the corporeal form and the spiritual form. The spiritual form is incorruptable while the flesh is destined for decay. Our spiritual selves will be joined to God as a flame to the fire. What we are now and what we have done will be of no consequence in heaven, because we will all be eternally incorporated and conjoined into the spirit of God, indistinguishable from Him. Those of us unworthy of joining with God, well our flame will simply be allowed to flicker out...which I believe the Bible refers to as being eternally seperated from God. This is the hell I think the bible speaks about. Just my take on it, believe what you want.
2006-09-17 02:27:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our experiences are for our perfecting. Once we get there we won't need that. We are recognized in Heaven, to me we will keep some of our personality. Since there will be no more tears, then would we remember the bad things?
2006-09-17 02:19:25 · answer #4 · answered by RB 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This is speculation because there is nothing explicitly said about it in the Bible. It says that we will be changed in body, but it doesn't say anything about our minds. Our minds are supposed to be renewed and transformed on earth (Romans 12)
2006-09-17 02:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by Buzz s 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Christians could do with their minds being cleansed from the lifetime of dogma they've carried.
2006-09-17 02:23:31 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup, God's going to give everyone lobotomies in heaven. It's part of the full package deal.
2006-09-17 02:20:14 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
no u have to be clean in the first place the heaven is around u at this moment heaven is the state of mind only highest putpose of ur life
2006-09-17 02:17:37 · answer #8 · answered by george p 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
This life which we are now living is but a dream. One day we will wake up and forget all about it. Once we are in the presence of GOD, all else will be forgotten.
2006-09-17 02:23:14 · answer #9 · answered by STONE 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't know about a Christian group that believes that, but it would be necessary for reincarnation, which a lot of religions believe in.
2006-09-17 02:18:51 · answer #10 · answered by tenaciousd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋