Does paradise exist?

Question

This is a questionaire for an art project. Please answer, i need a wide range of views.

1. Does paradise exist?
2. Where is it / What is it?
3. How do we get there?
4. Was earth suppose to be paradise and have we destroyed it?
5. How are we destroying the earth?

* By suppose i mean was it "meant to be".

thanx for the help, when i asked this in the art section most of the replies were "do your own homework" i don't think they know what i meant by questioniare.

Answer 1

It's a state of enlightened consciousness attainable by everyone regardless of religious beliefs. Paradise is breaking the chains of material desire that bind us and finding eternal bliss and inner peace.

Answer 2

Paradise is emotional. That's all there is to it.

1. Yes.
2. It is a way of relating to your environment.
3. You appreciate and enjoy your surroundings while treating them with respect.
4. The earth is not necessarily supposed to be anything, though we are certainly consciously preventing it from being the Paradise we want it to be.
5. By treating our world as a commodity, to be used and abused for our own personal gain.

Answer 3

1. Yes
2. It is one of the places where God dwells - He is omnipresent.
3. We get there by believing on Jesus Christ.
4. Earth was never meant to be Paradise.
5. We are destroying the earth by consuming all of it's natural resources - GREED.

Answer 4

paradise is all a matter of opinion. Yes, I think it exists, and I've been there. It is here on earth, a lush tropical island with beautiful blue oceans surrounding it, a tropical rain forest on it, and few people around to disrupt it. I got there by airplane, but I'm sure you can also get there by boat. I think many parts of this earth are still paradise, and yes, people have destroyed some of it, mostly by littering the earth, and using too many chemicals in their yards which is muddying up our beautiful springs and rivers.

Answer 5

1. No
2. Paradise is in being meaningful; meaning comes from struggle, struggle comes from disorder. Therefore, paradise never was, and never will be.
3. Finding a challenge and overcoming it to find a new challenge behind it
4. No, earth was not meant to be paradise. It is what it is.
5. Apathy, more than anything. No one WANTS to destroy Earth, but how many of us continue to use electricity that polutes the water and atmospher, how many continue to use nonbiodegrable products and then throw them out, how many have adopted the throw-away philosophy for the sake of conveinance? When we throw away, we throw away the Earth. Good luck fixing that problem though, we are what we are.

Answer 6

I am going to limit this to the first question only: Paradise exist as an alternate form of the earth only. There are some ideas in the like I am giving you.

Answer 7

1. Does paradise exist? Not in the sense u mean
2. Where is it / What is it? Imaginery
3. How do we get there? After the rapture
4. Was earth suppose to be paradise and have we destroyed it? It has not come to be yet
5. How are we destroying the earth? We aren't

Answer 8

Yes Paradise exists in the mind of the person who has the idea of paradise. My paradise may not be yours for example... create your own paradise and work out a way to get there

Answer 9

Paradise is in heaven and you get there if you are saved, repent, ask for forgiveness, and ask Jesus Christ to come into your heart. Yes, I think we have done a pretty good job of destroying the earth.

Answer 10

yes, paradise exists

where? ---> heaven

when? --->when christians die

earth paradise? ---> originally, yea, the garden of eden adam and eve destroyed it with sin and we have continued that sin

how are we destroying earth? ----> besides for pollution and all that jazz, we have proposed gay marrige, adultry and others immoral sins..........how aren't we destroying earth?

Answer 11

yes it exists
if u are a good person u can get there
u will find every kind of food fruit etc. there
u will be young there about at 25 even if u are older or younger when u die
don`t forget we were dismissed from there but we can go there again and live foreverrrrrr there, this is not the real life