Is Heaven a personal place?

Question

The idea of my Heaven is probably different from your idea of Heaven. Are we going to a pre-designed Heaven or are we the designers of our personal Heaven?

Answer 1

I think in a sense you design your own Heaven. I think it's different for each person because we all have a different idea of paradise. I like how the movie "What dreams may come" starring Robin Williams dealt with the issue. A very interesting and beautiful concept of Heaven.

Heaven isn't a "place" so much as a state of being. Like a dream. Our soul doesn't exist in a physical plane. It is a bundle of energy. I think Heaven is more of a feeling of euphoria. Like the most happy & pleasurable moment of your life, lasting forever. Like having the sweetest dream you ever had & never waking up.

As mortal beings, living in a physical world it is hard for us to wrap our brains around the concept of souls, eternity & Heaven. We try to relate to it on a physical level. So we see Heaven as clouds & harps & pearly gates & Hell as a pit of fire. Or we imagine any other images of paradise or damnation, but it is always in physical terms. Just as we can't imagine God as a formless being so we picture him (mostly from Renaissance paintings and the like) as an old man with a beard...it just makes it easier for us to understand and relate to.

The truth is that we won't know Heaven until we're there. Until then, we can only guess. Heaven to me would be a feeling of joy & peace that would never end. It would be a place of beauty, filled with light. It would be a plane where I would be reunited with all my loved ones...

The movie "What dreams may come" was especially meaningful for me as an artist. I might paint my own Heaven. My Heaven would be very much like the one in the film.

I have had glimpses of Heaven, in nature, in Algonquin, on a clifftop overlooking the lake and the pines. Watching the sun rise. I see Heaven in magnificent works of art and architecture. ..Standing in St. Peter's in Rome. Or on a mountain across from Neuschwanstein Castle in Bavaria. Whenever I see beauty, I feel the presence of God...

Whatever gives you the most joy, is Heaven for you. So yes, it's personal.

:)

Answer 2

Duh * * *. What do you want to be? an engineer?

Gold streets, Gold walls - Gold so bright with that Lamb SHINING FORTH, white Gold as clear as GLASS - that is shiny stuff. Oh, found at Revelation 21:18, vs 21.
Seems next to mention just the foundations of those walls, MADE of precious stones.
No temples.
The sun or moon could not be seen for the brightness of that LAMB, vs 22,23.

PURE water, a Bunch of FRUIT Trees, healing leaves, no curse found there. Revelation 22:1,2,3

No night. Hmmm, no sleep? Rev.22:5

Rev.21:1 says this is a New Heaven and a New Earth.

Reject this?? Rev 21:7 and 21:8 contrast believers and unbelievers, something about eternity in "fire and brimstone", a liquid fire like sulphur or LAVA that has a burning effect . . . FOREVER.

Except, before this happens, other things happen for about 1018 years, give or take 11 years or more (only 1007 given exactly in that BOOK).

Oh, supposed to be 1000 years on this same Earth, FIRST, to prove that you can still reject that LAMB even under PERFECT conditions, regardless of current efforts to improve the environment. It will be supernaturally cleaned up, then 1000 years with the LAMB in CONTROL, people will still reject the LAMB. Not as bright as after the last judgement, yet you will still KNOW the LAMB is around. Maybe Cable TV or something.

Well, or, past woe, satellite TV proves events happen fast, during a certain 7 years of conflicts. You should get the paperback "Left Behind" book series, two sets, 1 of adults and 1 of teens, on different paths. When each story was printed, some of the tech stuff obviously had not been built before the stories came out in the late '90's/early '00's.

You can design anything you want to place your FAITH in. I saw on TV, boat races where they have boats built of "water resistant" cardboard and those built of concrete. Sealed Concrete floats only if it covers a large amount of water, same as steel. Float what you want, and make sure it stays dry as you get attacked in your personal heaven.

Other parts of the Bible suggests we will have "OUR PERSONAL MOMENTS" with the Creator of Heaven. Some look forward to the BAD.

Answer 3

In a sense yes. Heaven may differ from one individual to another. Indeed as what you said one could pre-designed the place called heaven. You can make your home as a heaven based on your personal thought and idea where you could relax out of all your stress. You could do all the things with full concentration where peace resides abundantly. Therefore i well agree with what's in your mind.

Answer 4

First of all, it there is indeed a heaven, it is not a place -- it is a state of mind. I think it is a mystical state of mind -- like nirvana -- in which we become one with the universe. This state is probably the same for everyone who experiences it, although it may have some personal overtones at the periphery. For instance, if you are a Christian, you may find yourself visualizing Christian imagery when you are coming in or out of the universal state.

Answer 5

In the Bible there is very scarse information about what Heaven could be like. The notion of living forever is pretty preposterous really... It's the struggle and not knowing that makes life interesting. If we had nothing to strive for, nothing to lose, and protect that couldn't work.

Answer 6

in many texts, the “heavens” stand for God himself and his sovereign place. His throne is in the heavens, it is, in the spirit realm over which he additionally rules. (playstation 103:19-21; 2Ch 20:6; Mt 23:22; Ac 7:40 9) From his superb or maximum suitable place, Jehovah, in result, ‘seems down’ upon the actual heavens and earth (playstation 14:2; 102:19; 113:6), and from this lofty place additionally speaks, solutions petitions, and renders judgement. (1Ki 8:40 9; playstation 2:4-6; seventy six:8; Mt 3:17) So we examine that Hezekiah and Isaiah, in the face of a grave probability, “saved praying . . . and crying to the heavens for help.” (2Ch 32:20; learn 2Ch 30:27.) Jesus, too, used the heavens as representing God while asking the non secular leaders no count if the source of John’s baptism replaced into “from heaven or from adult adult males.” (Mt 21:25; learn John 3:27.) The prodigal son confessed to having sinned “against heaven” as properly as against his own father. (Lu 15:18, 21) “the dominion of the heavens,” then, ability not merely that it incredibly relies in and rules from the non secular heavens yet in addition that it incredibly is “the dominion of God.”—Da 2:40 4; Mt 4:17; 21:40 3; 2Ti 4:18. The Bible explains in hassle-free, hassle-free-to-comprehend phrases the subject of the lifeless. be conscious what Ecclesiastes 9:5 states: “The residing are extensive wide awake that they are going to die; yet as for the lifeless, they are extensive wide awake of not something in any respect.” In God’s new worldwide, there will be “great ecstasy” while billions are resurrected, for “there is going to be a resurrection of the two the righteous and the unrighteous.” (Acts 24:15; John 5:28, 29) those will get carry of a sparkling commence in existence with the possibility of residing from that element forward, even continuously. (Psalm 37:11) 11 however the meek ones themselves will own the earth, and that they are going to surely locate their beautiful satisfaction in the abundance of peace. (Micah 4:3-4) 3 And he will incredibly render judgement between many peoples, and set concerns rapidly respecting sturdy international locations a strategies away. and that they are going to could desire to conquer their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning shears. they won't raise up sword, u . s . against u . s ., neither will they learn conflict anymore. 4 and that they are going to surely sit down, each decrease than his vine and decrease than his fig tree, and there will be no person making [them] tremble; for the very mouth of Jehovah of armies has spoken [it].

Answer 7

i think we're all going to our own personal heaven. heaven is paradise. if it were pre-designed, we'd have to be pre-designed, right? and since we're obviously all quite different, our heavens must be, too.

Answer 8

"The kingdom of heaven is at hand". When he said this he meant what he said. It is within your reach, not in the future or the clouds. Yes you are right. It is a personal state of mind.

Answer 9

I think heaven is probably just a state of mind.
If you've lived a good life, your mind will be at ease after your death
If you've done wrong, you won't ever be able to rest easy.

Answer 10

best thing is not to waste time in discussing all these imaginary things. the joy of heaven you will find when you run your life without harming others!