A man spoke with the LORD about heaven and hell.
The LORD said to the man, "COME, I WILL SHOW YOU HELL."
They entered a room where a group of people sat around a huge pot of stew. Everyone was famished, desperate and starving.
Each held a spoon that reached the pot, but each spoon had a handle so much longer than their own arm that it could not be used to get the stew into their own mouths. The suffering was terrible.
"COME, NOW I WILL SHOW YOU HEAVEN," the LORD said after a while.
They entered another room, identical to the first - the pot of stew, the group of people, the same long-handled spoons. But there everyone was happy and well nourished.
"I don't understand," said the man. "Why are they happy here when they were miserable in the other room and everything was the same?"
The LORD smiled, "Ah, it is simple," he said. "HERE THEY HAVE LEARNED TO FEED EACH OTHER."
Is this accurate in your understanding?
2007-01-07 07:25:17 · 15 answers · asked by mike g 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I have heard it before or very similer the point is if we think of each other we are creating heaven if we only think of ourselves we make it hell
2007-01-07 07:29:49 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
You're telling me that heaven is being spoon fed from a pot of stew? That's a bit of a let down. I mean even if it's really good stew I was hoping that heaven would be more fun than that. This is depressing news.
Islamic heaven sounds like it's a waaaay more fun.
2007-01-07 07:33:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
oh WHAT?
You mean even if you get to go to heaven you've got to work in a soup kitchen feeding bums or some rubbish like that??
That is NOT cool.
Heaven is supposed to be fun.
ps. you dont have to hold a spoon by its very end - I guess this once again proves how intelligent theists are.
pps. If the example had been better thought out it would just be a story about cooperation, not about religion - morality is more precious if it comes from knowing its right, not trying to get in the good books of an omniscient policeman in your head.
2007-01-07 07:31:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Accurate, maybe not. Its not clear in the bible what heaven is actually like so to say that, we feed each other, or that hell is simply just not being able to eat. I think not. Hell we know for sure is a place of great suffering. The only way to make it to heaven is to accept Jesus as your Lord and Savior. Also to live as Jesus did, be be Christ like. So to say that is a correct interpretation of heaven and hell is incorrect. only because no one really knows what heaven will be like.
There is an under lying message of selfishness in the passage. If you learn to put others needs ahead of your own, this is something Jesus did for us all. He died to give us all a chance to go to heaven, if he had not died for our sin we would all be damned to hell, because we are all sinners.
2007-01-07 07:39:14 · answer #4 · answered by treble_angel_1 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means they are two roomfuls of idiots not smart enough to cut the spoons' handles or choke up on the handle.
That fable is more pity than pithy.
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2007-01-07 07:29:48 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
No. I've seen this illustration before, and it reminds me of life on earth here, right now.
There are two ways to live, trying to serve yourself or trying to serve others. Jesus advocated the second way. This was to have a joyful, peaceful life while living.
Hell is for a different purpose.
2007-01-07 07:30:21 · answer #6 · answered by nancy jo 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Well, I will agree with the spoonfed part. But, that is a whole different issue.
2007-01-07 07:46:01 · answer #7 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That applies to Earth not to Heaven and hell.
2007-01-07 07:28:06 · answer #8 · answered by idahomike2 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
there is no god no hell no heaven. that leaves not much to be accurate in your child like story
2007-01-07 07:29:54 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You lost me at "A man was having a conversation with the Lord."
2007-01-07 07:28:02 · answer #10 · answered by YDoncha_Blowme 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋