Heaven . Why would you want to go there ?

Question

The biggest turn off for me is heaven.
God created man to live on earth.To go to heaven when we die seems so unatural to me.
Revelations 21:3 to 5 indicates life on earth not in heaven.
John 11:25 &26 Jesus talks about resurrection.
Why would anyone want to go to heaven ?

Answer 1

It beats Hell any day. Imagine all of those endless family reunions in Hell.

Answer 2

Because its the 'new earth.' Heaven in some ways has got bad press, especially with the common misunderstanding of Heaven is that in Heaven we are going to be singing praises forever and ever, playing harps and all that.

That leaves out a lot of the simple pleasures we take so much joy in. For instance, like the joy of a baby, or the pleasure of drying our clothes in the warm sunlight, or the satisfaction of a job well done, or just simply enjoying a good book or a newspaper in the morning. Paul said now we see "through a glass darkly," a poor reflection in a dim mirror (1 Corinthians 13:12). But some day this dark glass will be removed and we will be able to see clearly and be able to enjoy the real meaning of being a human being created in the image of God. The point is when the dark glass is removed, the view of Heaven is not going to change. It is going to become clearer. When that happens, I believe the things that give us pleasure in this world will make much more sense and give a whole lot more pleasure.

Answer 3

God created man to live in relationship with Him, wherever He is. If you understand that the God who holds all hope, grace, love and mercy, who is good, perfect, just, all knowing, all loving and on your side lives in heaven, you'd want to be with Him. Heaven is just wherever God is and believe me, there are times when I've experienced heaven on this place called earth. On the other hand, if heaven is where He lives, then it's safe to say that He's not in hell. In hell, there will be the exact absence of all that God is: no hope, no love, no second chances, no mercy, no forgiveness, no grace, no peace, no joy. Which one will you choose?

Answer 4

During the Lord's day the earth is going to be refurbished and God said that the human imagination can't even fathom how beautiful it will be. Yes, God will set up His kingdom here on earth and will dwell among us. On the other hand the alternative is not that aesthetic.

Answer 5

We need to go somewhere until God restores the Earth and his kingdom here. Heaven is where believers go for now.
Believers come back with Jesus at the battle of Armageddon and then rule here for 1000 years, then some rebellion and then we are back with the new heaven and earth..

Answer 6

I don't know maybe because earth is physical and only for the living so when you die you either frickin fly or fall somewhere so I guess I want to go to Heaven so that way I don't have to burn eternally with some dude with horns that wants to eat me

Answer 7

Heaven is more or less a generalization of "Eternal Peace" and end to pain, sin, death, sadness, suffering. Whether that eternity is spent on Earth or in the Heavenly throne room of God makes no difference to me. I'd be happy with eternal peace living in a cardboard box.

Answer 8

The soul dwells as the inmost body of light and superconscious, universal mind of a series of nested bodies, each more refined than the next: physical, pranic, astral, mental. In our conscious mind we think and feel ourselves to be a physical body with some intangible spirit within it. Yet, right now our real identity is the soul that is sensing through its multiple bodies physical, emotional and mental experience. Recognizing this as reality, we powerfully know that life doesn't end with the death of the biological body. The soul continues to occupy the astral body, a subtle, luminous duplicate of the physical body. This subtle body is made of higher-energy astral matter and dwells in a dimension called the astral plane. If the soul body itself is highly evolved, it will occupy the astral/mental bodies on a very refined plane of the astral known as the Devaloka, "the world of light-shining beings." At death, the soul slowly becomes totally aware in its astral/mental bodies and it predominantly lives through those bodies in the astral dimension.

The soul functions with complete continuity in its astral/mental bodies. It is with these sensitive vehicles that we experience dream or "astral" worlds during sleep every night. The astral world is equally as solid and beautiful, as varied and comprehensive as the earth dimension-if not much more so. Spiritual growth, psychic development, guidance in matters of governance and commerce, artistic cultivation, inventions and discoveries of medicine, science and technology all continue by astral people who are "in-between" earthly lives. Many of the Veda hymns entreat the assistance of devas: advanced astral or mental people. Yet, also in the grey, lower regions of this vast, invisible dimension exist astral people whose present pursuits are base, selfish, even sadistic. Where the person goes in the astral plane at sleep or death is dependent upon his earthly pursuits and the quality of his mind.

Because certain seed karmas can only be resolved in earth consciousness and because the soul's initial realizations of Absolute Reality are only achieved in a physical body, our soul joyously enters another biological body. At the right time, it is reborn into a flesh body that will best fulfill its karmic pattern. In this process, the current astral body-which is a duplicate of the last physical form-is sluffed off as a lifeless shell that in due course disintegrates, and a new astral body develops as the new physical body grows. This entering into another body is called reincarnation: "re-occupying the flesh."

During our thousands of earth lives, a remarkable variety of life patterns are experienced. We exist as male and female, often switching back and forth from life to life as the nature becomes more harmonized into a person exhibiting both feminine nurturing and masculine intrepidness. We come to earth as princesses and presidents, as paupers and pirates, as tribals and scientists, as murderers and healers, as atheists and, ultimately, God-Realized sages. We take bodies of every race and live the many religions, faiths and philosophies as the soul gains more knowledge and evolutionary experience.
Therefore, the Hindu knows that the belief in a single life on earth, followed by eternal joy or pain is utterly wrong and causes great anxiety, confusion and fear. Hindus know that all souls reincarnate, take one body and then another, evolving through experience over long periods of time. Like the caterpillar's metamorphosis into the butterfly, death doesn't end our existence but frees us to pursue an even greater development.
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Answer 9

heaven is a way of reassuring the living that death isnt so bad. we fear the unknown so in order to set our minds at ease we make up fairy tales that tell us after we die we go chill in the clouds with jesus or whomever. id rather be reincarnated.

Answer 10

When I die I'm going into the ground, where monkeys are supposed to go.