If you knew for sure heaven was a fact would you want to die sooner?

Question

After all its about getting to the pearly gates
Why prolong life if dieing is better?

Answer 1

Take me now, Jesus man!

Answer 2

No, I wouldn't want to die sooner. I want to experience this life and what it has to offer, both the good and the bad. If there is a heaven there will be eternal time to enjoy that AFTER this life. I want to experience something different first.

Plus, we have a survival instinct. Even most people who truly believe they will go to heaven when they die do everything they can to avoid death for as long as they can. It's a natural instinct.

Answer 3

I know there is a heaven, but only a few ascend to it.

If, however, I could foresee the future and know for a certainty that my life will never get better, then yeah, "dieing is better." The one thing that forces a human to stay alive is positive thinking, which is not at all merited if the future does not hold positive things, but we can never know for sure, can we?

Answer 4

NOOO WAY
Here on Earth I can read and learn. I LOVE reading.
In heaven there are no books except the Bible - and I've already read that.
In Heaven I would be BORED out of my brains - or soul since I wont have any corporeal body.
So no I'm NOT in a hurry to get to heaven.
I just wanna read!!!

Answer 5

I am sure of heaven, but when the bible is studied, it becomes clear that only a very limited number have a heavenly future. 144,000.
these ones are chosen by Jesus to help him in the coming judgement.
These ones will hold a position even above the angels.
1 Corinthians 6; 2,3
Rev. 20;4

I am just not good enough.

Answer 6

I think I would be tempted. But there must be a reason why we are here on Earth first, so I probably wouldn't want to die sooner.

Answer 7

I believe in karma and reincarnation and that we all continue to reincarnate until we burn all of our karma and learn all of our lessons. I have no fear of death, but want more time to ascend consciously so that I am ready/worthy for the kingdom of Heaven. Otherwise, it's just back down to the physical plane (Earth) for another lifetime of this toilet bowl until I get it "right". I believe I need as much time as possible to prepare.

Answer 8

Life is great. Heaven is a fact I know for sure. I'll get there when I get there.

Answer 9

a. that is a sin, wanting to die
b. Id like to bring others to the light
c. Id like to experience life on earth first, then the experience would be greater

Answer 10

Man is not meant to live in heaven but on earth.

Where are the dead?

Gen. 3:19: “In the sweat of your face you will eat bread until you return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return.”

Eccl. 9:10: “All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol [“the grave,” KJ, Kx; “the world of the dead,” TEV], the place to which you are going.”

What is the condition of the dead?

Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”

Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts [“thoughts,” KJ, 145:4 in Dy; “all his thinking,” NE; “plans,” RS, NAB] do perish.”

John 11:11-14: “‘Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sleep.’ . . . Jesus said to them outspokenly: ‘Lazarus has died.’” (Also Psalm 13:3)

Is there some part of man that lives on when the body dies?

Ezek. 18:4: “The soul [“soul,” RS, NE, KJ, Dy, Kx; “man,” JB; “person,” TEV] that is sinning—it itself will die.”

Isa. 53:12: “He poured out his soul [“soul,” RS, KJ, Dy; “life,” TEV; “himself,” JB, Kx, NAB] to the very death.” (Compare Matthew 26:38.)

Are the dead in any way able to help or to harm the living?

Eccl. 9:6: “Their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.”

Isa. 26:14: “They are dead; they will not live. Impotent in death, they will not rise up.”



What does the Bible show to be God’s purpose regarding the earth?

Matt. 6:10: “Let your kingdom come. Let your will take place, as in heaven, also upon earth.”

Ps. 37:29: “The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”

Answer 11

I still had a reason for coming here. i have unfinished work.