My favorite city in all the world is Paris, and at every opportunity, I go there. If it is Heaven you dream about, that you hope for, why not get along there now, why live on amongst all the evil around you? Could it be that you really aren't altogether certain that such a thing as Heaven, or Hell, exists? Across nearly all of my years on this little blue rock I have not believed in Hell or Heaven or the Easter Bunny, and I relish my rich and unendingly awarding life. But so many devout Christians keep in their satchel of gods and demons and ghosts constant assurance that in Heaven their miserable lives will be swell and sweet and, though each one of them is merely one of the billions of human creatures, a seat next to God. I would beg you to live on, to remain among us till your clock ticks your goodbye, but, truly, the Heaven-thing is a puzzle to me. If it were Paris, and if I were not on tour across North America, I would shag my youknowwhat to JFK by afternoon.
2007-06-09 04:32:12 · 12 answers · asked by ? 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Someone here asks if I have "even been to" Paris. Yes. I was a student in Paris in the late 'sixties (a noisy time to be there, believe me), and across my long reach into life I've been to Paris oh maybe 25 times. Not once did I 'scream' to return to my native ground. A tout à l'heure.
2007-06-09 04:43:25 · update #1
Sweet Suzy, the young person with the sweet, sweet stage name, one thing I never do is say I am "intelligent," nor would I have any right to do so. I am merely a professional Shakespearean actor, you see, who has given no small amount of his long life (I am 71 and disabled yet still a working actor) to his own native tongue and to only a couple of others, French and German. Chiefly, I confess, to read in the original the great drama of France and German-speaking nations in Europe. As to my "creator," oh, no, dear heart, I was "created," yes, but as a child of a rape whose teenage mother abandoned me when I was two. No Bronze Age god of a tribe of murdering desert nomads had a thing to do with it.
2007-06-09 05:09:54 · update #2
b/c God has work for us to do on this earth - He wants us to save as many souls as we can - He will decide when it is time for me to go home to Him
2007-06-09 04:36:40 · answer #1 · answered by servant FM 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The apostle Paul speaks of exactly this issue. I have no idea, about heaven personaly. I am sure it is much better than the world that so many of mankind live in today. Perhaps not as nice as Paris, or the peaceful landscape of Southern Illinois that I live in. I have a few things to do, before I stick out my spiritual thumb towards heaven. But when the spirit moves me, it's off to the far side of the hill....
2007-06-11 18:59:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
You of so many years on this planet are showing your complete ignorance. Get yourself a New Living translation of the Holy Bible, which is written in plain modern English, so that even you can understand it. The answers you seek are within it's pages.
But from your short paragraph above, you consider yourself so intelligent that you probably will have contempt, prior to investigation, and so all you will have is what you have here and none of which will last, it will fade away like green grass in the hot summer sun.
Pitiful that you are part of the group who chooses to worship God's creation, but not the Creator.
2007-06-09 11:56:18 · answer #3 · answered by Sweet Suzy 777! 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We must be patient, and that means wait for God. We know that the pure in heart see God, and the human agenda does not include a pure heart, and so we have much work to do here and now to prepare. Heaven is being conscious of only God and His idea, spiritual truth.
2007-06-09 12:16:49 · answer #4 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I hate PARIS!
When I was there, November 2006 Not ONLY was the TRAFFIC.... Worse than New York.... or.... Las Angeles.... or.... TOKYO! I have driven in all of these Cities... and NONE was as Bad..... as Paris!
WE..... Don't describe....HEAVEN..... GOD.... does in the book of Revelation!
HAVE.... You ever Read IT?
(Revelaton 20:12-to-15) And I saw the dead, the small and the great, stand before God. And books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books, according to their works.
(Rev 20:13) And the sea gave up the dead in it. And death and hell delivered up the dead in them. And each one of them was judged according to their works.
(Rev 20:14) And death and hell were cast into the Lake of Fire. This is the second death.
(Rev 20:15) And if anyone was not found having been written in the Book of Life, he was cast into the Lake of Fire.
Thanks, RR
2007-06-09 11:38:03 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are free to believe what you want but, I am certain there is a heaven and hell for the bible does not lie ... like a lot of people,cops,governments, and lawyers. If you believe in Christ our Lord you will be saved for the punishment of sin is death , then judgement day before the lord begins and he is the only one who judges you and where you will be placed. As for making it in heaven sooner..... God has his design and you won't get there any sooner then for when he calls for you to be!
2007-06-09 11:38:31 · answer #6 · answered by MagikButterfly 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a good question, and the answer is, of course, that "god" doesn't want everyone to wait. That is why he created terminal childhood diseases, allows fatal school bus crashes, allows child predators to be born and eventually kill children, sanctions freak accidents that kill children, has mothers die in childbirth, and created diseases and all sorts of other ways to send young adults to "heaven." You see, "he" wants to "call them home" early. "He" decides that "their work on earth is done", and he has "work for them to do." As a result there are many children and young adults that are deprived of the life they are entitled to. But "god" is happy because they get to "heaven" 40 - 80 years sooner. And I guess the christians think that these prematurely dead people should be happy about it too.
2007-06-09 11:47:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have yet to meet these miserable Christians. Most everyone I know is quite joyful. I would be more then happy to go home right now. I will remain here and serve GOD as long as he requires it of me. I guess where our treasure lies, there our heart will be also.
Maybe you will spend eternity in Paris.
2007-06-09 11:39:25 · answer #8 · answered by Bye Bye 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the heaven thing is a puzzle to me as well. My question about this heaven this is, life is cruel, so why should the afterlife be any different? Personally, i don't believe in a heaven or hell.
2007-06-09 11:40:12 · answer #9 · answered by KikkaiTheDistiller 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wouldn't Paris be that much better with someone to share it with?
That's why Christians wait... we want to share it with as many people as we can.
2007-06-09 12:40:14 · answer #10 · answered by Deof Movestofca 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋