2006-12-02 04:24:59 · 27 answers · asked by Indian 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Zero... No human beings can enter heaven, only souls!
Understanding the whole concept of Heaven? Heaven that is also called as Swarga in Hinduism is the stage when our Atman the soul within waits for a suitable body for it to manifest again. This Atman the soul within has a balance of positive merits due to which it remains in heaven (Swarga).
Any Atman the soul within that has a negative balance of merits is awarded hell, also known as Naraka in Hinduism. Naraka (hell) is also the stage when our Atman the soul within is in waiting for the next manifestation to occur.
Briefly, it can be stated, that if we have the balance of positive merits from zero to plus hundred we shall be awarded the stage of Heaven (Swarga) after our "Atman, The soul Within" has left the mortal frame. However if the balance of merits is between zero and minus hundred our Atman the soul within shall be given a place in hell (Naraka).
Heaven (Swarga) and hell (Naraka) are interim stages in the cosmic Life cycle of our Atman the soul within. The moment this Atman the soul within gets matching parents on Mother Earth... it shall again manifest a body... the body can be that of a Human Being and also of an animal depending upon the balance of merits or demerits possessed by the Atman.
As stated clearly in the Bhagavad Gita... the foremost of all sacred scriptures (the doctrine dictated by Lord Krishna to King Arjuna in the battlefield of Mahabharata between the Pandavas and the Kauravas... no Atman the soul within can directly gain immortality from Heaven.
Lord Krishna is considered as an Avatar (a direct incarnation of God) in Hinduism. He descended on Mother Earth roughly 1000 years before Bhagwan Mahavira, 1077 years before Gautama Buddha, about 1500 years before Jesus Christ and about 1700 years before the advent of Prophet Mohammed. More on heaven here- http://www.godrealized.org/understanding_the_whole_concept_of_heaven.html
2006-12-02 04:43:21 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The inspired writings of the apostle Paul tell us at I Corinthians 15:50 “Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God". So no human life can live in Heaven. This scripture is in direct opposition to the Apostle's Creed, a doctrine of Catholics and protestants alike. The lives in heaven are of spirit creatures.
2006-12-02 12:43:27 · answer #2 · answered by quaver 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Infinite.
2006-12-02 12:26:00 · answer #3 · answered by c.arsenault 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Here is where the awareness of that place of "lifes between lives". Heaven, as you called it. . . you are there for 10 minutes, 4 years, 30 years, forever. This is of course time phrased in terms of earthly human understanding. In heaven, there is no time.
2006-12-02 12:29:06 · answer #4 · answered by onelight 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Here check this out...
My dad told me HOW LONG ETERNITY IS when I was like 7 yrs. old, with a story about a single DOVE.
I will share it with you.
First I must start with, for you my friend...HEAVEN and hell ARE ETERNAL...
Eternal means, FOREVER an EVER.
There was a dove, and it flew to a beach on our little blue planet, and got ONE SINGLE GRAIN OF SAND.
Then it "put on its flight suit, or got into the space shuttle", or something, and went to... well, lets say the moon or some other CLOSE BODY/ PLANET...
When it got there it dropped off that grain of sand and came back to EARTH 100 years later.
It then flew to the same or another beach, got another GRAIN OF SAND, flew back to the spot it took the OTHER grain of sand and put the next one there.
Now imagine this dove, EVERY ONE HUNDRED YEARS, did the same thing. its like an ETERNAL DOVE TOO( lives forever)...
Now imagine after that DOVE had removed EVERY GRAIN OF SAND FROM EVERY BEACH ON THE PLANET...
comming back for 1 grain of sand every 100 yrs. ...
When all the sand from every beach is gone, i suppose you could add from every desert also..
Now you have reached THE BEGINNING of eternity.
GOOD STORY?
Did that help at all?
When we get called home to HEAVEN, it is for all eternity, and we really can not seem to even GRASP the concept of what ETERNITY is, even with the story my dad told me when I was a small child.
Hope that helps.
DJH
You know ur question is really OFF anyway, as its true, THERE ARE NOT ,"HUMAN BEINGS", in HEAVEN...ONLY SOULS/ SPIRITS/ SPIRITUAL BEINGS, Given a NEW BODY, FROM GOD, ABBA FATHER, that means (DADDY).
Oh i suppose there were a couple who GOD ,"BEAMED UP", if you will while they were STILL ALIVE, LIKE uh...SOLOMAN?
I can't think right now, and too lazy to look it up.
BUT HEAVEN AND HELL ARE ETERNAL...
AND INFINITY and ETERNITY are one and the same.
2006-12-02 12:42:22 · answer #5 · answered by gemseeker 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry to say this! But No heavan... don't wanna offend anyone here! But You could forgiven for hoping there is a place after death! Unfortunately, we are destined to be reverted back to star dust over the next 500 million years or so... Just too keep the evolutionary ladder going in space and time!
2006-12-02 12:28:48 · answer #6 · answered by AZRAEL è 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There is no "life time" and no "human being" in "heaven" (if there is such a thing as "heaven"). Your question is based on too many fallacies to adequately answer.
2006-12-02 12:27:05 · answer #7 · answered by Shibi 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Until they decide to come back to earth in either another human body or what ever other type of animal that they want to try.
Beats me why anyone would want to be reincarnated as a fly though.
2006-12-02 12:27:46 · answer #8 · answered by CLOCKWORK 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What color is an orange? Oh and by the way, don't say orange. Dang, what's wrong with people. If you dn't believe in Heaven, ok. But if you believe in Heaven, why would you think people would die there? duhhhhhhhhh
2006-12-02 12:29:14 · answer #9 · answered by Captain America 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You say 'don't say infinite', but what if that's the answer? As it happens to be!
If you don't want the truth, DON'T ASK!!
2006-12-02 12:31:36 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋