What do people in heaven do for all eternity?

Question

Please don't cite the bible. Just tell me from your rational perspective what you think creatures can do for all eternity?

Answer 1

It's like Studio 54. Mountains of blow and tons of gay sex.

Answer 2

If you have a child then look at that child and imagine being like him or her forever. I mean at their best. There will be no suffering or pain there but children always have something to live for, even in pain and suffering, they aren’t aware of the options, alternatives to living a wholesome life, unless they’ve been taught to them. But a healthy, happy child knows what heaven is, and you don’t have to ask them if they want to play, that’s for sure.

Answer 3

Well first off, think of the alternative!

Secondly, Heaven is filled with light - living light, light that one experiences, light that one knows intimately well and that Light is the LORD God Almighty. In that light we get to know God in ways that we absolutely can not know him down here on this earth, though we percieve Him through a glass darkly, and we percieve what Heaven is by our worship of Him, in Heaven were all sin is done away with, and there is no more impediments to our worshipping Them, loving Them, having all manner of fellowship with them and experience God in all His ways, the mind can not grasp nor can the spirit of man percieve the blessedness of that life that is an eternally growing experience of eternally growing proportions. No matter how long we are there we will experience more of God, greater from God, deeper from God and on and on and on and on and on and on .... .... .... get the picture even remotely.

Heaven is filled with the greatest things and individuals we have ever possibly could understand. All the saints down from history will be there and we will know them all by name, not just know them from a record of them or what we have heard of them but we will know them as they will know us. Heaven is a great family reunion. For there is no outsiders there, we will fellowship and worship with the saints that have gone on before. We will share our experiences with one another to futher glorify God in Heaven.

WOW makes me not want to wait.

Heaven is Heaven for Heaven is were God resides, and if for no other reason and for Him alone and for His Eternal Presence alone - that is all I need Heaven to be!

Answer 4

Here's a secret ... they don't stay in heaven for eternity. Eventually they get restless and start descending again, and wind up on the physical plane and begin the endless cycle of reincarnation until they once again return to heaven. Just an endless cycle to cure all the boredom.

Answer 5

Those in heaven will be ruling over those on earth. As for what those on earth will be doing...enjoying life everlasting in paradise, without the wicked influence of Satan. All those things that you've always wanted to do, learn, experience but didn't have the time...you'll have all the time in the world! Plus, we will likely be able to use our brains to the fullest capacity. I can't even comprehend what that will be like! We will still be learning about God, because we will never learn all there is about him. And think of the people you'll meet! Moses, Noah, Abraham, David. So many things to learn! I can't wait!

Answer 6

They will not be in heaven for all eternity, read your Bible.

While they are there I believe they will learn more in an hour than they learned in a lifetime.

I suspect that they will be able to watch over their loved ones that are still on earth.
Nobody knows that for sure, but there are excellent Christian authors that have illustrated heavenly life that way.

Try to find a book called DOMINION by Randy Alcorn if this subject interests you.

grace2u

Answer 7

"In Heaven" is only the 1000 years between the resurrection of the righteous and the resurrection of the lost. After that, the redeemed will be living on the earth made new. It says we will grow gardens, etc. I'm sure that Praising the Almighty will be a large part of it. I am sure that it will be very pleasing and rewarding, though at this point we don't understand many of the details.

Answer 8

They enjoy the nearness to the One True God, their Creator and Sustainer; that is the highest and almost impossible end divinely decreed for all rational beings. It is more blissful than the return of princes to their All-Powerful Father.

Answer 9

Praise god without ceasing.

Sounds like hell for all except the egotist being praised and I would think even he would find it boring after a while.

Eternity was a concept that the people who wrote about it had a hard time understanding. After all, they thought all history was comprised of 4,000 years. They didn't even have words for numbers like billion or trillion, much less googolplex, and eternity is infinitely bigger than that. They used the term "eternity" the way a three year old would use the term "kajillion."

Answer 10

The same things we do here: work, study, have their own abode, get together, sing, enjoy each other's talents, admire the beauty of Heaven, and come down to visit us when they want to.

Answer 11

God's word, the holy bible tells us what tey will be doing in the near future.
Rev. 20:6: “They will be priests of God and of the Christ, and will rule as kings with him for the thousand years.” (Also Daniel 7:27)

1 Cor. 6:2: “Do you not know that the holy ones will judge the world?”

Rev. 5:10: “You made them to be a kingdom and priests to our God, and they are to rule as kings over [“on,” RS, KJ, Dy; “over,” AT, Da, Kx, CC] the earth.” (The same Greek word and grammatical structure is found at Revelation 11:6. There RS, KJ, Dy, etc., all render it “over.”)