I do know about the virgins. Are you sure you are reading the christian bible, as opposed to the Koran. Let me tell you what the christian bible says about heaven.
Heaven will be out of this world. This world is under a curse. The environment is under a curse(In the Millenium, when Christ rules, there will be no earthquakes, hurricanes, tital waves, tornadoes). The animals are under a curse(in the millenium the lion and the lamb will lie down together(today the lion will eat the lamb). Our bodies are under a curse(they are subject to the law of entropy...they get old and weak and sick and eventually die). We also have an evil nature inside of us. This nature is responsible for depression, much of our fear and much of our anger and bitterness. For those who get to heaven, the curse will be lifted. We will get new bodies, resurrection bodies similar to Christs' body after he rose from the dead. They will be supernatural bodies and yet also physical bodies. They will no longer have an evil nature so all the anger, bitterness, depression and fear will be gone. Revelations 21:4 says " and He shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and there shall no longer be any death; there shall no longer be any mourning, or crying, or pain; the first things have passed away." Most people think of heaven in terms of a physical Shangri-La, and so it is. But even more important, heaven will be a psychological Shangri-La. Think of all the fear, anxiety and even depression that you experience everyday over events you’ll have to deal with that day or in the near future or whenever. Think of the problems you’re dealing with on your job or in relationships….marital, family and friends. All fear, anxiety and depression will be gone(that is part of the old sin nature which we will no longer have in our new bodies), as will the problems themselves.
There will be no sun. God is light. The light of God will illuminate heaven. But it will be a different kind of light. Light illuminates and it gives a certain amount of warmth. The light of God will illuminate also. But the light of God will emanate love. The suns rays do not emanate love. But when one is in Gods light, he(or she) will actually feel the love of God. If when a person died, the angels came to take him to heaven and they blindfolded him and plugged up his ears so he couldn't see anything or hear anything, he would still know when he entered heaven. He'd know because he would be able to feel the love of God and all the anger, bitterness, fear, worry and stress would be gone. Gods light emanates love.
1Corinthians 2:9 says "However, as it is written: No eye has seen, no ear has heard, no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him"—
What does that mean? It says "no eye hath seen". I've been to some pretty beautiful places on this planet. Yet that verse says that my eyes haven't seen anything that compares with heaven.
It says "no ear hath heard". I've talked to people who have said that they have been to shangra-la type paradises or even said they had visions of such places and described them to me. But even those don't measure up to heaven.
In this day and age of TV, radio and the internet there are a million ways that you could put pictures of shangri-la into your head, much more so than in centuries past. Yet none of those images could compare with the real heaven.
It says "no mind has conceived". In other words, go home some time, lay down on your bed and close your eyes and try to conceive what paradise would be like if you were given omnipotent power to create it just as you please. Even that would fall short of heaven. That verse says that your finite mind couldn't even think of what heaven was like.
The colors in heaven will be unreal. It won't be just the few colors of the spectrum of light. There will be thousands of colors we've never seen before. The sounds will be unreal. There will be musical sounds that no man has ever heard on earth. There will be thousands of diamond like gems of many colors that reflect light and heaven will be filled with light to reflect. God is light.
2Corinthians 12:2-4 says " I knew a man in Christ about fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.
And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter". This was Paul the Apostle taken up to heaven. He said it was unlawful to speak what he saw because anything he would have said about heaven would have fallen short of a true description of the real heaven. An accurate picture of heaven is incapable of being put into words and any description of heaven always falls short, including the one I am giving now. Psalms 16:11 says " Thou wilt make known to me the path of life; In Thy presence is fulness of joy; In Thy right hand there are pleasures forever".
Heaven is a place where we will worship God but I don't think we will just be up there sitting on a cloud playing a harp. We'll all have a function there and we'll enjoy what we are called to work at.
I see people everywhere making plans for social life, plans for dating, plans for education, plans for marraige, plans for career, plans for children,plans for buying a home, plans for retirement and plans for everything under the sun. But when it comes to eternity, they have no plans. Their attitude is just "I'll cross that bridge when I come to it", never thinking that when you come to it, it's already too late. Since we're going to spend about 70 years here and forever in eternity and since death and what's on the other side is certain sooner or later, I'd say plans for eternity is more important than temporal plans. You do not want to miss heaven. Even if there was no hell(and I assure you, there is a hell) you would still not want to miss heaven. John 3:16 says"For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life". Unfortunately, as simple as salvation may be, there is going to be a whole lot of people who miss heaven.
2007-08-11 19:19:23
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answered by upsman 5
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I actually believe that heaven is a theoretical misconception that helps people understand what happens to us after death. I believe that we are born, we live our life, get old and catch a few diseases, die, are buried and our body decomposes are we a done! People, who believe in heaven, mostly see as a place in the sky that we can't see and is rule by God, the creator of the universe. However, how do we know this is true since, none of us have been to heaven a bad and none of us even know what this God character looks like. I could write more but it would be too long and controversial...
2016-05-20 03:51:55
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answered by janice 3
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