Are there film festivals, book groups, music concerts? Will I still be able to play my clarinet? Is there Parcheesi and Monopoly? Organized Scrabble tournaments? Is there good conversation?
2006-10-30 15:27:10 · 7 answers · asked by Ecks 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
No one really knows but only that there will be peace and no evil.
Shalom
2006-10-30 15:31:05 · answer #1 · answered by Pashur 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Someone once explained it to me like this. When you go into eternity there is no sense of time as it is here on earth. You won't really be aware of having been in eternity 10 minutes or 10,000 years. Don't worry I'm sure there will be heaps of things to do. Imagine trying to visit and experience everything here on earth. How many multiple lifetimes would that require. Let alone eternity.
2006-10-30 23:33:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read St. Augustine's "Confessions", book eleven. Eternity is not time without ending. It is rather a timeless state of being.
He writes:
'Nor do you precede any given period of time by another period of time, or you would not precede all periods of time. In the eminence of your ever-present eternity, you precede all times past, and extend beyond all future times, for they are still to come--and when they have come, they will be past. But "you are always the same and your years shall have no end." Your years neither go nor come; but ours both go and come in order that all separate moments may come to pass. All your years stand together as one, since they are abiding. Nor do your years past exclude the years to come because your years do not pass away. All these years of ours shall be with you, when all of them have ceased to be. Your years are but a day, and your day is not recurrent, but always today. Your "today" does not yield to tomorrow and does not follow yesterday. Your "today" is eternity. '
Modern cosmology agrees with Augustine that time is a property of this universe only, and came into being with it. Time has no meaning outside the physical universe.
As hard as it is to think outside of the temporal flow of our lives, realize that time is not intrinsically linear. We perceive it as directional, and flowing - time's arrow, so to speak. But that is an accident of human perceptual faulties and not an absolute reality; it is simply one of the directions in which phenomena may be observed. And outside of the universe, in a timeless existence, it would have even less applicability. Life with God is an ever-present eternity.
2006-10-30 23:35:19 · answer #3 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I've heard there's a library of infinite and perfect knowledge.
There's gardens and gardeners
There are clothes to make and food to eat
There are entire worlds to explore...
2006-10-30 23:31:04 · answer #4 · answered by Shinigami 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Time isnt judged in heaven....meaning..there is no time. And no...all of those things you mentioned are in this life only.
2006-10-31 00:33:55 · answer #5 · answered by mark M 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hear it's all about worshiping at the throne of god. I'd rather be where all my friends will be.
2006-10-30 23:36:39 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
you get to torture people in hell, that or bowling
2006-10-30 23:28:53 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋