Is there really a heaven, where I am supposed to believe souls float around in the sky? Please convince me.?

Question

So the "spirits" of dead people, dead animals etc. since the beginning of time all cohabitate in space, and "watch over us". So, heaven is different depending on your country of birth or death? Do you float around with your dead grandma or dead ex-husband? Or, dead cat or dead goldfish?

Answer 1

There is no "floating." The soul is completely intellect which is not a tangible object. Heaven and hell are all around us actually. Heaven and Hell are not places, but "states" of being. Your thoughts do not take up space and so the soul cannot occupy a space. When animals die, their souls cease to exist. The soul is the "anima"....that's Latin for "Life Force." It animates us, but our intellects live on. Since animals are not intellectual, their souls die when they die and there is no intellect to live on. Being in one place or another after death takes only thinking of being there. There is no such thing as time after death. So our intellects can be in China one moment and America the next.

Answer 2

God began out making something that could final a protracted time i assume. It took a turn after God had shaped allot of what he observed as stable. Then he set up door type a million and door type 2. at the back of a million of the doorways became right into a continuation of what God have been calling, as much as then, stable issues. at the back of the different door is what we see. that's suggested this worldwide will end. i think the different a million will nevertheless be occurring basically it wont have replaced any. I kinda think of heaven would be ceremony there the place it began by a diverse call.

Answer 3

Nobody will be able to convince you to believe. You'll know you've got it when the knowledge in your head moves to your heart and you feel this awareness. Heaven is a place you create, it is all based on thought. What you think will happen instantly. If you think you are in hell, you will experience that. If you want to be in heaven with loved ones, you will experience that. There is no time and space to hold you back from anything.

Answer 4

‘Heaven’ - capitalized - has a shared meaning in Islam and all the other revealed religions. Primarily, it refers to that beautiful abode where, those who believe in only God, humble themselves to worship Him, do the good and avoid the evil, are promised to go after the end of this worldly life. In this sense, it is the synonym of the "Gardens of Paradise", which is the equivalent of the Arabic word: Jannah. Those blessed dwellers will live there in an everlasting life.

This term, in Christian theology, may also mean a name of God the All Mighty. Again, in the sufist (mystic) tradition of both religions, this term means an ecstatic state of communion with God.

Thus, it is obvious that all the connotations of this word are spiritual and highly exalted, above the human level of worldly experience. It is a transcendental space that the believers, though never experienced, yet are able to conceive through the detailed description that God has supplied them with. This is in order to arouse their incitement and longing for it. It is difficult to quote the many verses in Qur'an that describe Heaven, as these are so many!

It might be sufficient to know that every pleasure in that Heaven is unparalleled to that in the worldly life. It is as the prophet of Islam, Muhammad (pbuh), described to enclose:

"What no eye has ever seen and no ear has never heard and no human heart has ever perceived." (Narrated in the book of compiled hadiths by Imam Muslim.)

Its food, houses, rivers, pleasures… everything is beyond imagination! And because the believer is always attached to the spiritual more than the sensual, even in Heaven, God has made the ultimate ecstasy for the believers there, is to look at His Holy Countenance. Such is a blessing, from which believers never get bored or even get accustomed to, despite familiarity.

Because this term – Heavens - refers to the place and condition of utmost happiness, it was borrowed or say, "hijacked", by those whose philosophy of life is a mere hedonistic one. I think that their choice of this word in particular is evidence, in itself, of their awareness of the model image of happiness and bliss.

But the gap is quite wide, between the model image and this worldly application of pleasure, which is definitely associated with a pain or discomfort of some kind, or at least with the sense of temporality or boredom. For this reason, those hedonists rely on a "carp diem" style of life. This is a Latin expression, which means: "live day by day". This would mean that you must exhaust your pleasure every day for fear that there may not be a second opportunity tomorrow!

If you need to know more about the description of Heaven, from the Islamic point of view, I recommend that you buy a CD of the Qur'an, the Muslim Holy book, and just search for the words "Heavens" and "Gardens of Paradise". Here, you will know much about the rewards that await the believers there and more important, the requirement for a believer to attain them. Such requirements would look simple compared to the reward, and can - with the mercy of God - be reached if one can persevere in obeying Allah and practicing true Islam.

Answer 5

Yes there is a Heaven. And you should be concerned about how YOU get there,not about dead animals and spirits.
Here's how: "Believe in the Lord Jesus, and you will be saved.." Acts 16:31

Answer 6

Wow you have no concept of heaven I see. If you think souls float around in the sky then I guess this explains how much you have studied. There are many proofs prophecy, acrheology(Finds), extrenal(not in the bible) accounts, etc. But proof won't get you into heaven only faith in the lord Jesus.

Answer 7

In the bible it only gives a small peice of what heaven is. This is because with our limited brains we cannot possibly comprehend it fully. I dont believe that we "float around" but we will be given perfect bodies. however there is only one heaven and in it you will not be able to see the earth. it isnt different for each country.

Answer 8

why should u be so concern about after-life? concentrate on ur current life first. one-step-at-a-time. worry later. let the priests/shaman talk themselves to death. as long as u do good deeds, ur heart is happy. u are doing a WONDERFUL life ! if god doesnt grant u heaven, i will slap him to his senses and force him to reserve 1 slot in heaven just for u. but only if u are nice to others.

Answer 9

A SPIRITUAL WORLD IS RIGHT BEFORE AND YOU CANT EVEN SEE IT ,GO TO MY BLOG AND KNOCK ON A WALL AND SEE LOBO A PART OF HELL.LOOKING FROM THE OUTSIDE LOOKING IN .I OPENED A WINDOW FOR YOU TO SEE IN,THEN YOU'LL BELIEVE.I HAVE THE KEYS TO HELL AND DEATH AND OPENED UP THOSE GATES.BEHOLD IS THERE A HEAVEN/THERE IS A HEAVEN

Answer 10

Yes Heaven is real, you don't float around you worship Christ, the one who died for me and you.