2006-12-06 07:40:01 · 29 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Yup....looking forward to it
2006-12-06 07:41:48 · answer #1 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Scientists say time is a way of explaining change. If nothing ever changed, there wouldn't be such a thing as time. An historian who was documenting the progress of a political philosophy that attempted to stabilize the world's economic and political orders called his book "The End of History", indicating that if there were no new wars or economic or social movements, effectively history was over.
We document our lives through our memories. We can't actively remember everything. We only remember outstanding people and events, cyclical experiences and strong sensory impressions, serving as landmarks on our life maps. As lived, our lives balance between the thrill and terror of new experiences, and the tedium and comfort of old habits and routines.
What would eternity be like? We are assured that it will be either pleasant or unpleasant depending on our status at death. But what will actually happen? Anything at all? Will our souls be infinitely satisfied by the endless beatific contemplation of the divine contenance? Or for those in hell, will the torture and misery still be effective after a billion years or so? It is said that people can get used to any misfortune. It is also said that familiarity breeds contempt.
Perhaps in the absence of change, there will be no perception of passing time, and it will simply be a super-stable "now". What would that feel like? As physical creatures, we require stimulation of some kind to keep us aware and functioning. Perhaps it's a different game as disembodied souls. However, Christian doctrine predicts a bodily resurrection for everyone. What will those bodies do in a perfect realm? What is perfect does not need to change. Could we handle such a prospect?
2006-12-06 16:18:56 · answer #2 · answered by skepsis 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I would love to live forever on a paradise earth, the way Jehovah had intended for man in the beginning. With so much to see and to learn, life would hardly be boring. But before that happens, God will clear away all wickedness so the meek ones may inherit the earth.
It sure beats being dead forever.
2006-12-06 15:42:50 · answer #3 · answered by LineDancer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
yeah. I don't really remember my past, so I figure if I live forever, my "life" would be full of holes and half-truths to me, worsening in this way as I think back. I wouldn't really feel like I've lived a long time because I don't really remember it. I would live in the almost here and now as I do now.
2006-12-06 15:48:33 · answer #4 · answered by vehement_chemical 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I think about it every day. Do you know how many thousands of different types of apples there are? I don't even really like apples that much but I'd sure like to try every single one...there are lots of other foods I'd like to try too. I'd also like to learn to play a musical instrument. I'd like to study the stars in great detail and visit every inch of the planet we live on (and others if they are ever made available to us). I want to meet every single person that shares the earth with me and make friends with each of them. I want to find out what struck them as the most compelling reason to support Jehovah's Universal Sovereignty.
Great question!
2006-12-06 15:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by krobin 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes I can not wait to live forever on a paradise earth worshiping Jehovah God and Jesus Christ without the devil brothering us. seeing my husband again in the new system. seeing all my love ones again and helping them to learn about Jehovah God and Jesus Christ. living in a world with everyone getting along and loving each other. my husband and I can build a house together and live there in peace and plant and play with all the animals and not be afraid of them. people think that Jehovah is going to destroy the earth, but he did not destroy it with the flood, so why would he destroy it now. something that he made. things will be like a paradise what Adam and Eve lost.
2006-12-06 15:45:49 · answer #6 · answered by lover of Jehovah and Jesus 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Living forever on earth is torture.
Living forever in heaven, well, I’m not gonna complain about it ‘cause it’s better than spending the eternity burning in hell.
2006-12-06 15:46:25 · answer #7 · answered by they're savages 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Many times. But being born in time and now living in time....it's difficult to conceive of eternity.
Here's how I deal with such weighty questions as that :
Ps 131:1-2
My heart is not proud, O LORD,
my eyes are not haughty;
I do not concern myself with great matters
or things too wonderful for me.
2 But I have stilled and quieted my soul;
like a weaned child with its mother,
like a weaned child is my soul within me.
(from New International Version)
2006-12-06 16:09:36 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I like the idea because that's enough time to learn how to do everything. You know all those things that I think my body is getting too old to learn, I'll get to learn - that's kind of a fun thought for me.
2006-12-06 15:48:52 · answer #9 · answered by daisyk 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. And since I believe that only God can bestow the gift of immortality, I have researched to find out what are the requirements of heaven and what heaven will be like.
Here is where I have read a description of what eternity for the righteous will be like...
http://www.ezinearticles.com/?WHAT-WILL-HEAVEN-BE-LIKE-?-A-Description-That-Could-Change-Your-Life&id=351178
Show N Tell
2006-12-06 15:46:39 · answer #10 · answered by ccttct l 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Living forever on earth is a great suffering.
2006-12-06 15:42:15 · answer #11 · answered by Bright 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋