They say when you go to heaven, you are supposed to remember nothing of your life on earth, so you can live happily in heaven. Does this seriously creep anyone else out? I mean all that makes me think of is Children of the Corn or The Stepford Wives and stuff like that. Just a bunch of mindless happy zombies walking around with big creepy smiles on their faces. I think I'm happier being an atheist ^_^;;;
2007-02-26 17:28:49 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Really. What good would the stripper factory be then?
2007-02-26 17:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Eh..I don't buy that. What would be the point of heaven, a place that is suppose to be great, if I can't remember or see my mom or anything? There are loads of people I'd like to forget and hopefully if there is a heaven, that will be true. I don't think anyone knows for sure what heaven will be like. It's just guessing really. I tend to think heaven is like earth only without crime and pain.
I don't buy God erasing our minds. That would be pointless. He created us to live life so what we be the point of this life if we didn't remember any of it? I don't find God creepy at all (religion is a different story all together!) so I don't think He's like a Stepford husband or anything. I think people make Him that way to create their own little zombies on Earth. That's just my take.
2007-02-26 17:36:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sure who "they" are but I don't believe that's what heaven is because that would mean we would be zombies, how uncool. Think of it that you will have IMMENSE recollection of EVERYTHING. All the pieces of the puzzle will be there before you. All the horrible times will now make sense in the big picture. There will be so much love and joy because you will have an uninterrupted relationship with God that you will not feel saddened by earthly sins. Believe me, heaven will be freeing, not binding.
2007-02-26 17:35:15 · answer #3 · answered by David 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know where that comes from, it's possibly to explain something we don't understand.
I think that the main point is that we won't know what it will be like in heaven, the promise being that we won't have pain, every tear will be wiped from our eyes byGod, and there will be a different life there.
The idea that we won't remember anything comes from somewhere else.
2007-02-26 17:34:30 · answer #4 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that if our lives were so pointless that God would not have bothered with the journey in the first place. I have heard in Classic Greek Mythology that Hades might erase the memories of a mortal life if it was wrought with tragedy, but in my system of beliefs our lives are brief but significant as it proves to Heavenly Father our worthiness to return.
2007-02-26 17:38:11 · answer #5 · answered by Matticus Kole 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who say that when you go to heaven, you are supposed to remember nothing of your life on earth, so you can live happily in heaven? Besides, does anyone know that besides God? Perhaps you can find out by commit suicide.
2007-02-26 17:36:04 · answer #6 · answered by yehaa yahoo 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
If you're a atheist you won't have to worry about going to heaven.
Jesus Christ said, "I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. No one comes to the Father except through Me."
2007-02-26 17:36:21 · answer #7 · answered by tracy211968 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Do you know the exact phrase? Perhaps it means you won't remember any of the BAD things that happened while on Earth. For example, the Bible implies that your body, if "sick", will now be healthy again.
To be honest, if heaven is what it is supposed to be, I can't see myself missing anything on this Earth...
2007-02-26 17:34:05 · answer #8 · answered by reginachick22 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Man is not meant to live on heaven, that's why they were created humans.
Do all good people go to heaven?
Acts 2:34: “David [whom the Bible refers to as being ‘a man agreeable to God’s heart’] did not ascend to the heavens.”
Matt. 11:11: “Truly I say to you people, Among those born of women there has not been raised up a greater than John the Baptist; but a person that is a lesser one in the kingdom of the heavens is greater than he is.” (So John did not go to heaven when he died.)
Ps. 37:9, 11, 29: “Evildoers themselves will be cut off, but those hoping in God are the ones that will possess the earth . . . The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. The righteous themselves will possess the earth, and they will reside forever upon it.”
If Adam had not sinned, would he eventually have gone to heaven?
Gen. 1:26: “God went on to say: ‘Let us make man in our image, according to our likeness, and let them have in subjection the fish of the sea and the flying creatures of the heavens and the domestic animals and all the earth and every moving animal that is moving upon the earth.’” (So, God’s purpose for Adam was that he be caretaker of the earth and of the animal life there. Nothing is said about his going to heaven.)
Gen. 2:16, 17: “God also laid this command upon the man: ‘From every tree of the garden you may eat to satisfaction. But as for the tree of the knowledge of good and bad you must not eat from it, for in the day you eat from it you will positively die.’” (It was not Jehovah’s original purpose for man someday to die. God’s command here quoted shows that he warned against the course that would lead to death. Death was to be punishment for disobedience, not the doorway to a better life in heaven. Obedience would have been rewarded by continued life, eternal life, in the Paradise that God had given to man. See also Isaiah 45:18.)
Must a person go to heaven to have a truly happy future?
Ps. 37:11: “The meek ones themselves will possess the earth, and they will indeed find their exquisite delight in the abundance of peace.”
Rev. 21:1-4: “I saw a new heaven and a new earth . . . I heard a loud voice from the throne say: ‘Look! The tent of God is with mankind, and he will reside with them, and they will be his peoples. And God himself will be with them. And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes, and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.’”
Mic. 4:3, 4: “They will not lift up sword, nation against nation, neither will they learn war anymore. And they will actually sit, each one under his vine and under his fig tree, and there will be no one making them tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken it.”
2007-02-26 17:36:14 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says that? Where in the Bible does it say that?
It says that the Lord will wipe away all tears, not all memories.
2007-02-26 17:32:33 · answer #10 · answered by Last Ent Wife (RCIA) 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HEAVEN AS THE BIBLE PUTS IT IS BEYOND DESCRIPTION AND WITHOUT THE REMEMBERANCE OF SIN. There are other things to think about, i'm sure !!!
2007-02-26 17:35:32 · answer #11 · answered by rapturefuture 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋