Believers: Do you really think in Heaven we will flutter around with wings and sing gospel music for eternity?

Question

That scenario sounds a lot like hell to me. Or do you feel God has more challenging things for man to do?

I ask this because earlier today some fundies were stating this as fact.

I do believe in God and Jesus, however I don't consider myself a Christian.Why?Just Look at some of the answers below.

Answer 1

Those are good questions. !

The Bible doesn't promote the idea that good mankind will go to heaven after he dies.
And likewise there is no hell place of torture for the bad ones from mankind.

As shown in the Bible it is Gods purpose that man lives on Earth in a paradise with perfect health and no need ever to die.
This is what was before the first couple Adam and Eve , and this is what they lost for us their offspring.

The Bible says that nothing can stop God from carrying out what he purposes to do.

In time under the ruler ship of God through his son Jesus Christ the Earth will be restored to its intended paradisaic condition and man will be made perfect.

There will be no crime , wars , sickness or death.
Those things , and the people that support those ideas will have been removed.

At this time people that have died will be resurrected back to a life on Earth and be given the opportunity to live their life in harmony with God and this NEW system of things.

The Bible says that this period of time will occur soon , even in our own lifetime.

What we need to do now is prove to God who's side we are actually on.

Are we going to follow and enjoy Satan's world and religious system ? . or will we abandon those things and follow God in complete truth according to what the Bible teaches us. ?

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Answer 2

The music part is right but the wings? Im not so sure. Go to google an look up visions of heaven and check out some of those links. There are stories of people who have seen heaven either in a vision or a near death experience.

Answer 3

I don't believe heaven is fluttering around and singing, that would seem pretty bleak. Heaven is something human beings simply cannot comprehend nor imagine, but I think the vision of C.S. Lewis is a compelling one:

"For the dream of finding our end, the thing we were made for, in a Heaven of purely human love could not be true unless our whole Faith were wrong. We were made for God. Only being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, lovingkindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love. It is not that we shall be asked to turn from them, so dearly familiar, to a Stranger. When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love. All that was true love in them was, even on earth, far more His than ours, and ours only because His. In Heaven there will be no anguish and no duty of turning away from our earthly Beloveds. First, because we shall have turned from the portraits to the Original, from the rivulets to the Fountain, from the creatures He made lovable to Love Himself. But secondly, because we shall find them all in Him. By loving Him more than them we shall love them more than we do now." C.S. Lewis: The Four Loves.

Answer 4

Not unless we get resurrected (or...reincarnated) as a butterfly, or a bird or something...it's so difficult to say what Heaven will be like. Everyone seems to have their own ideas about what heaven will be like. Perhaps we will enter the afterlife and never know we did...now, THAT would be something! Never knowing that we were in heaven (or, hell) all along...and wasting the opportunities granted to us because of ignorance to the not-so-obvious! I think Jesus did a lot of talking about this, and very few were comprehending what He meant, because they were too busy squabbling about their fears and desires to really listen to his message.

Answer 5

No.

Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and there was no longer any sea. 2I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. 3And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. 4He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away."
5He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

6He said to me: "It is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the End. To him who is thirsty I will give to drink without cost from the spring of the water of life. 7He who overcomes will inherit all this, and I will be his God and he will be my son. 8But the cowardly, the unbelieving, the vile, the murderers, the sexually immoral, those who practice magic arts, the idolaters and all liars—their place will be in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
- Revelation 21

Answer 6

Here is what those who go to heaven will be doing according to the Bible.
Luke 22:28-30
Revelation 5:9,10
Revelation 17:12-14
Revelation 19:11-16
Revelation 20:4,6

Answer 7

You bring in an interesting point many people feel that they are going to heaven yet they have no idea what they would do there!But yes God does have many Challenging things to do for mankind, and not necessarily in heaven because the heavens he created for the angels and for himself as a dweling place, and he created a dweling place for mankind also,(Isaiah45:18)For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else. God gave Adam Assignments to keep him busy and his mind occupied as he did with the angels in heaven, he will always have Challenging work for us all to do.

Answer 8

Wings...no.

Gospel music? I hope so. I love singing gospel music.

I have no idea what God will have us do, but I'm sure there will be many things. Such as feasting! Free food!

It would be pointless to have people in Heaven doing nothing.

Answer 9

I think that we will be happy in Heaven and sing songs of praise to God, but I don't think we will flutter around with wings. Who said anything about wings anyway?
:)

Answer 10

Yah, I'm into more Rockin types of Gospel than you have probably heard.

And, I'm pretty much flyin down the mountains without wings most of the winters. So, wings would be pretty cool.

but, see, you're missing the whole point, there dude.

Heaven is about freedom and joy.