Is Heaven a place where you . . .?

Question

have peace, continue to work on your spirituality, different levels of development, how do you see it for you? Have you ever had the dream that reveals some of it to you? What was it like? How did you feel?

Answer 1

Heaven is a place where we will worship God but I don't think we will just be up there sitting on a cloud playing a harp. We'll all have a function there and we'll enjoy what we are called to work at. Since there isn't much revealed about the particulars of heaven, all you can do is speculate. The bible says there will be no more tears, no more sorrows, no more pain. In the book of Psalms it says there will be pleasures forever more. In the book of revelation it says that there is no more night there. It's daylight all the time. You say "boy, that's going to be tough sleeping in the day". I don't believe there will be any sleep. We'll be awake forever more. You probably say "that's terrible...I love to sleep". You love to sleep now because the daily grind of living in a cursed earth wears us down and sleep re-news us. But there'll be no curse in heaven. Life will not wear us down. Nothing will wear us down. There will be no 2nd law of thermodynamics(the law of entropy) in heaven. That law says that all things tend toward dis-order with time. That's why we get old and tired and sick. In heaven, nothing will wear down. You will be given a perfect ressurection(glorified) body and it will stay perfect throughout eternity. You'll never be sick. Sickness is part of the law of entropy which is part of the curse.
The bible says there'll be no marriage in heaven. You won't need marraige. They'll be no kids born. It would be hard to have marraige. In heaven we will all love perfectly. That would almost rule marraige out. Married people usually love their spouse much more than everyone else. But that would be impossible in heaven since will will all love perfectly. To love your spouse more than everyone else would mean either that you are loving your spouse perfectly and everyone else imperfectly(which would be impossible since we will love perfectly) or that you are loving everyone else perfectly and your spouse more than perfectly(which is also impossible since you can't love more than perfectly). That doesn't mean that we won't have special memories toward one person in heaven whom we may have spent our life with on earth.
Will there be sex in heaven? The bible doesn't say. It just says there won't be marraige. I believe that since God gave us some way to have intimacy here on earth there may also be some form of intimacy in heaven whatever form that may take but that is just speculation. When people ask me "is there sex in heaven", I like to give them this answer...........I say "when God made heaven he took the 1000 most wonderful things that anyone could imagine and put them in heaven........if sex isn't there, that means it didn't make that list". That, of course, is not in the bible. It is a story I made up. But it illustrates how wonderful heaven will be.
When we think of heaven we must remember that we live in a cursed earth and many of the things we need now in our corruptible bodies that enclose our finite imperfect minds such as marraige, sex, and sleep will not be necessary in heaven when we are given our glorified resurrection bodies with perfect minds. Some of those things may still be there but we won't need them. We won't need food but we'll still be able to enjoy food.

1Corinthians 2:9 says "However, as it is written: No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"—
What does that mean? It says "no eye hath seen". I've been to some pretty beautiful places on this planet. Yet that verse says that my eyes haven't seen anything that compares with heaven.
It says "no ear hath heard". I've talked to people who have said that they have been to shangra-la type paradises or even said they had visions of such places and described them to me. But even those don't measure up to heaven.
It says "no mind has conceived". In other words, go home some time, lay down on your bed and close your eyes and try to conceive what paradise would be like if you were given omnipotent power to create it just as you please. Even that would fall short of heaven. That verse says that your finite mind couldn't even think of what heaven was like.
You know how that contemporary christian song goes:
Heaven is a wonderful place
Filled with glory and grace
I want to see my saviors face
Heaven is a wonderful place
I see people everywhere making plans for social life, plans for dating, plans for education, plans for marraige, plans for career, plans for children,plans for buying a home, plans for retirement and plans for everything under the sun. But when it comes to eternity, there are no plans. Their attitude is just "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it", never thinking that when you come to it, it's already too late. Since we're going to spend about 70 years here and forever in eternity and since death and what's on the other side is certain sooner or later, I'd say plans for eternity is more important than temporal plans. God has made salvation simple. John 3:16 says"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life". Unfortunately, as simple as salvation may be, there is going to be a whole lot of people who miss heaven.

http://www.johnankerberg.org/Articles/_PDFArchives/practical-christianity/PC1W0303.pdf

http://www.intouch.org/index_76034.html

http://www.pleaseconvinceme.com/home.php

http://www.bible.ca/su-heaven-like.htm

http://www.bible.ca/ef/topical-is-haven-and-hell-real.htm

http://www.livingwaters.com/listenwatch.shtml

Answer 2

What you're talking about is the exact reason why I don't believe in Heaven... or Hell either, for that matter. Being in one place forever and doing one thing (worshipping God, I guess) for eternity wouldn't do anything for your "spiritual growth" or "spiritual development." How could it? There would be no challenges, no obstacles to overcome, nothing... just peace and happiness forever. The only afterlife scenario that makes sense to me is reincarnation; only with many life experiences could you truly "develop your spirituality" and continue your progress. I'm not saying that reincarnation is a definite fact, because there's no way of knowing for sure, but if there really is a world beyond this, it makes no sense that we'd be stuck there forever.

Answer 3

I read a book once called Heaven by Joni Errikson Tada

It was a beautiful book that showed really how exciting the bible described in heaven is going to be. I read it at a time I was grieving for someone dear I had lost and it was beautiful to think of them in this place that had no suffering, pain, death, sickness and hatred. The safest place you could ever be. A place that could be explored forever with plenty of interesting people to meet from history.

It will not be a spirit existence but we will have new bodies that do not wear and out and without faults.

and don't forget the bible says there will be a new heaven and a new earth - so all the places you don't get to see in this lifetime you can check out the new improved versions! exciting!

Answer 4

I think there are different levels in heaven. The bible tells us about the 3rd heaven etc. So I believe there are differences. I have not seen it but I dreamed about my home in heaven. I was sealing it up for the appointed time. All I could see was a beautiful window with beveled glass and it was drawn in by golden metal angels which drew the window closed. Everything else in the house was covered with white sheets. Women with clothing and covering like the biblical times waited outside for me but I don't know who they were. I assume they were relatives, there were 5 to 7 of them and I thought they symbolized how long I had to live.

Answer 5

Heaven is a kingdom or government that will rule over the earth, only 144,000 persons are chosen to go to heaven to serve as priests and kings, the rest of righteous mankind stay on earth forever.

Answer 6

I can't say that I've ever had a dream (that I can remember), and I don't think that it is fully meant to be known what Heaven is like, until you get there. The one thing that I do know, is that God will be there. I do not fear death, it is a stage to heaven, I do not dread Heaven, I embrace it.

Answer 7

I just live on earth and live the best I can. I make the place where I live as my earthly heaven. After doing well (and I really mean really trying to live well). If there is heaven, then I must go to heaven. Dreams? Dreams are not reality.

Answer 8

I think life in God's presence is just what the Bible says it is. I refer to the description of Adam and Eve in the Garden. I look at comments that Jesus made about our communion with God and fellow believers. I look to prophets Ezekiel and Isaiah. I look to the Psalms. I look to what was given to John as Revelations. I think it will certainly be all of that and more. I also think it would be difficult for the human mind to grasp the full extent of "Heaven" with our rather limited experience of a perfect state of existence.

Answer 9

Heaven is the completion, it is a place of worship and joy like we could not imagine, there are not diffrent levels. You grow spiritually here beginning with salvation, always groing towards holiness until your death when your salvation is finally complete.

Answer 10

This is heaven:direct face-to-face vision of God as He is----Father,Son and Spirit;total and perfect union with God,an ecstasy of fulfillment beyond human imagining;the "now" of eternity in which everything is ever new,fresh,and present to you;the warm flood of joy in the company of Jesus,his Blessed Mother,and all those you have ever known and loved;a total absence of pain,regret,bad memories;no more tears,no more sadness and no more sorrow;the perfect enjoyment of all your powers of mind and (after the resurrection on Judgment Day) of body.

Answer 11

My belief is that:

#1~You will experience all the pain and heartache that
was felt by all others as a direct result of your efforts.

#2~ Then you will experience all the joy, peace, and love that
was felt by all others as a direct result of your efforts.

Then you will rejoice beyond measure.