I, personally, like a little hardship in my life. Mostly because it keeps me going. I've got goals and dreams that I want to fulfill, but the sound of eternal bliss and happiness, just doesn't work. We need negative experience, in this life, to progress further. So, why would there be a place of eternal happiness and bliss at the end of this life? That would mean that life is just meant to be a negative experience just so we can have a good experience in the end. Heaven forbid, there be no reason at all for our suffering, and that we do it to ourselves with no God involved.
2007-08-01 07:18:28 · 15 answers · asked by Stevo 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
simplistic/wishful thinking: I like to be happy, and wouldn't it be nice if I could feel like this all the time.
In real life it doesn't work because our brains are much better at recognizing differences than steady state conditions. It's what also defines our personalities and makes us seek new goals after we have achieved one.
So heavenly happiness would require a major personality adjustment and who would really want that?
2007-08-01 07:23:43 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would. The One who does have eternal life, going into the past and the future, is our Creator. He is called the "happy God". 1 Timothy 1:11 Not bored, not insane as a person could become who is forced to watch the same TV program over and over. The amazingness that we see in nature on earth and out into the skies is just a "whisper" of his ways. Job 26:14 The joy of eternity minimizes the sad things that last for, relatively, a few moments
2014-08-30 14:23:42 · answer #2 · answered by Roberta B 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All the universe along with its laws of physics, time, space, gravity will not be the same in Heaven, I think so.
So the eternal life is nothing like this life, so you can't really say if you would get bored or not.
2007-08-01 14:35:30 · answer #3 · answered by Someone 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In keeping with our finite natures, we'll experience process in heaven. We will continually learn more of God—Ephesians 2:6-7 says God puts us in the heavenly realms "in order that in the coming ages he might show the incomparable riches of his grace." This means God will be revealing himself to us throughout eternity. As angels, also finite, strive to grow in their understanding—1 Peter 1:12 speaks of things into which angels long to look—so presumably will we. As we learn more of God, we will learn more of other people, angels, and the wonders of God's creation. The sense of wonder among heaven's inhabitants shows heaven not to be stagnant, but fresh and stimulating, suggesting an ever-deepening appreciation of God's greatness (Rev. 4-5). In heaven we'll always be learning and discovering.
In heaven we will serve God (Rev. 7:15). Service is not passive, but active. It involves fulfilling responsibilities, carrying out duties, expending effort, and having energy and creativity to do work well. (This will be work with lasting accomplishment, unhindered by decay and fatigue, and enhanced by unlimited resources.) Heaven's labor will be refreshing, productive and unthwarted, without futility and frustration. It will be like the work Adam and Eve did in the Garden of Eden (Gen. 2:15), before sin brought the curse on the ground, with its thorns (Gen. 3:17-19). Our work will be more purposeful in light of Christ's redemptive work and the glory it will have brought.
In heaven we will exercise leadership and authority, making important decisions. We will reign with Christ in heaven (2 Tim. 2:12; Rev. 3:21; 22:5). This implies specific delegated responsibilities for those under our leadership (Luke 19:17-19). We judge or rule over the world and we judge and rule over angels (1 Cor. 6:2-3).
2007-08-01 14:24:32 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
we live in this life to witness to ppl like you and tell them of eternity of praising God in perfect communion with no war, no disease, nothing bad. i don't know why anyone wouldn't want that. and eternal life in heaven is better than an eternal life in hell. it's one or the other. i believe the first one is a little better
email me if you have further questioning
2007-08-01 14:23:54 · answer #5 · answered by Chris S 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If there was no struggle we would not be human any more. So whichever way you look at it no person will ever get to heaven (assuming it exists) because there can be no humans in heaven.
2007-08-01 14:22:51 · answer #6 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wouldn't. I can't imagine anything more boring. Not to mention... what about everything changing around you, while you always stay the same. If there were no changes, there'd be no progress.
Uggg.... terrible.
2007-08-01 14:22:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not real sure. Sounds tiresome and tedious.
Will dinosaurs be in heaven when we get there?
2007-08-01 14:21:08 · answer #8 · answered by Mere Mortal 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I would like to live long and healthy, but not eternally.
2007-08-01 14:22:13 · answer #9 · answered by nckmcgwn 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because then you could run around and chop people's head off with a sword until only one person remains on this ball of dirt.
2007-08-01 14:23:11 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋