what is heaven?

Question

i know heaven is the place god is in but how is it up there i mean is it just religius people u know like peaceful people or does it have a ghetto i mean are you forced to live the life style of a religios peaceful or can you do things you like to do like we do here on earth of course not hurting god anyone can give me a good opinion of theirs?

Answer 1

A myth, a dream , a word , nothing .........

Answer 2

The physical “heavens” extend through earth’s atmosphere and beyond to the regions of outer space with their stellar bodies, “all the army of the heavens”—sun, moon, stars, and constellations. (De 4:19; Isa 13:10; 1Co 15:40, 41; Heb 11:12) The first verse of the Bible describes the creation of such starry heavens prior to the development of earth for human habitation. (Ge 1:1) These heavens show forth God’s glory, even as does the expanse of atmosphere, being the work of God’s “fingers.” (Ps 8:3; 19:1-6) The divinely appointed “statutes of the heavens” control all such celestial bodies. Astronomers, despite their modern equipment and advanced mathematical knowledge, are still unable to comprehend these statutes fully. (Job 38:33; Jer 33:25) Their findings, however, confirm the impossibility of man’s placing a measurement upon such heavens or of counting the stellar bodies. (Jer 31:37; 33:22; see STAR.) Yet they are numbered and named by God.—Ps 147:4; Isa 40:26.

“Heavens of the heavens.” The expression “heavens of the heavens” is considered to refer to the highest heavens and would embrace the complete extent of the physical heavens, however vast, since the heavens extend out from the earth in all directions.—De 10:14; Ne 9:6. The same original-language words used for the physical heavens are also applied to the spiritual heavens. As has been seen, Jehovah God does not reside in the physical heavens, being a Spirit.

In many texts, therefore, the “heavens” stand for God himself and his sovereign position. His throne is in the heavens, that is, in the spirit realm over which he also rules. (Ps 103:19-21; 2Ch 20:6; Mt 23:22; Ac 7:49) From his supreme or ultimate position, Jehovah, in effect, ‘looks down’ upon the physical heavens and earth (Ps 14:2; 102:19; 113:6), and from this lofty position also speaks, answers petitions, and renders judgment. (1Ki 8:49; Ps 2:4-6; 76:8; Mt 3:17) So we read that Hezekiah and Isaiah, in the face of a grave threat, “kept praying . . . and crying to the heavens for aid.” (2Ch 32:20; compare 2Ch 30:27.) Jesus, too, used the heavens as representing God when asking the religious leaders whether the source of John’s baptism was “from heaven or from men.” (Mt 21:25; compare Joh 3:27.) The prodigal son confessed to having sinned “against heaven” as well as against his own father. (Lu 15:18, 21) “The kingdom of the heavens,” then, means not merely that it is based in and rules from the spiritual heavens but also that it is “the kingdom of God.”—Da 2:44; Mt 4:17; 21:43; 2Ti 4:18.

Answer 3

Heaven is a state of unaltered consciousness. It cannot be conceived as a place but more of a peaceful state of mind if you relate it to here on earth. On a supernatural level i believe that it is a realm inhabited by the purest of beings, angels, fairies(believe it or not), and those that have gone before us. It is not above or below or diagonal to us, it exists in its own time and in its own place and deep down I believe that everyone wishes to go there(whether they have renounced their faith in God or not) However the question to ponder is what is hell? Hell is here on earth. It is what we have created here on earth with the wars, and the racism, and the panic.We are at the core of it, it is both beneath our feet and all around us.

Answer 4

I know that heaven is a place where god fearing people go to have peace and comfort, but an individual must have god in their life in order to go to heaven.

Answer 5

Heaven is being in the presence of God.

I don't think there is a description of it anywhere in the bible.

The only people in heaven will be those who have chosen Jesus as their Savior.

Jhn 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me

Answer 6

I'm not religious, and heaven can mean different to each of us.. but to me, it's a beautiful place where we can do anything we like. The good and the bad, where we are all ruled by our own conscience and wants.. where we all hold equal right. And be who we are or who we want to be. Isn't a place like that good enough to be called heaven? (:

Answer 7

To me heaven would be a place where Christians are forced to leave other people alone and worship peacefully amongst themselves.

Answer 8

I don't everything that is going to be heaven or what we'll do but I do know that it's going to be a great place !! And that's all I need to Know.

Answer 9

The end (or the beginning) of a fruitful Christian Life.

Answer 10

In the Name of Allâh, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful


[084:001] When the heaven shall be split asunder,

[084:002] And listen to and obey its Lord – and it must do so.

[084:003] And when the earth shall be stretched forth,

[084:004] And shall cast out all that was in it and become empty.

[084:005] And listen and obey its Lord – and it must do so.

[084:006] O man! Verily, you are returning towards your Lord – with your deeds and actions (good or bad), – a sure returning, and you will meet (the results of your deeds which you did).

[084:007] Then as for him who will be given his Record in his right hand,

[084:008] He surely will receive an easy reckoning,

[084:009] And will return to his family in joy!

[084:010] But whosoever is given his Record behind his back,

[084:011] He will invoke (for his) destruction,

[084:012] And he shall enter a blazing Fire (and made to taste its burning).

[084:013] Verily, he was among his people in joy!

[084:014] Verily, he thought that he would never come back (to Us)!

[084:015] Yes! Verily, his Lord has been ever beholding him!

[084:016] So, I swear by the afterglow of sunset;

[084:017] And by the night and whatever it gathers in its darkness,

[084:018] And by the moon when it is at the full.

[084:019] You shall certainly travel from stage to stage (in this life and in the Hereafter).

[084:020] What is the matter with them, that they believe not?

[084:021] And when the Qur'ân is recited to them, they fall not prostrate.

[084:022] Nay, those who disbelieve, deny (Prophet Muhammad [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam] and whatever he brought, i.e. this Qur'ân and Islâmic Monotheism).

[084:023] And Allâh knows best what they gather (of good and bad deeds),

[084:024] So, announce to them a painful torment.

[084:025] Except those who believe and do righteous good deeds, for them is a reward that will never come to an end (i.e. Paradise).





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(V.84:21) Prostration (see the List of Prostration Places at the end).

(V.84:22) It is obligatory to have belief in the Messengership of the Prophet (Muhammad ). Narrated Abu Hurairah [radhi-yAllâhu 'anhu]: Allâh's Messenger [sal-Allâhu 'alayhi wa sallam] said: "By Him (Allâh) in Whose Hand Muhammad's soul is, there is none from amongst the Jews and Christians (of these present nations) who hears about me and then dies without believing in the Message with which I have been sent (i.e. Islâmic Monotheism), but he will be from the dwellers of the (Hell) Fire." [Sahih Muslim, the Book of Faith, Hadith No. 153 (S.S.M. 20)] See also the footnotes of (V.3:85), (V.3:116) and (V.84:22).

Answer 11

It is a pretend place made up so people do good and do not fear death.