Could the human psyche handle an eternity free of challenges and conflict?

Question

Only the catatonic could envision heaven as a paradise. An eternity with no wrongs to right, no people to help, no problems to overcome.....forever and ever.

I imagine hoards of immortals desperately seeking suicide after the frist billion years of bliss.

Will there be any challenges in heaven to stimulate the mind and spirit?

Thanks

Even God needed drama and conflict. He couldn't go all eternity without creating us. We obviously fulfilled a need for excitement in His existence.

Answer 1

Imaginary places can do anything you want them to......

Answer 2

If heaven only meant you sit & juggle a crown all day on your head don't think it would be a much better option than hell. Thus I used to wonder like you.

The Bible says eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor has it entered into the heart of man all God has prepared for those who love Him. Doesn't sound boring, does it?

Just because we were created first after the angels doesn't mean God stopped here. We'll be able to explore the cosmos, learn of new wonders, come to understand fully all there is to know, maybe even teach other lifeforms on other worlds. I'm created in God's image & I know as a writer just having all my work set around as a testament to my talents would be pretty boring. It's when someone else reads my writing & is moved, educated, changed, etc. I get my greatest thrill. So why would God be different?

As man we tend to think in terms of the finite. You're born, have so long to learn and/or get things done, then die. But what if Edison, Michaelangelo, Einstein, etc. never died how much richer would this life be? Even those less noted had wisdom to share.

There will still be challenges but w/o the confines of limited knowledge & abilities. There's so much we've barely tipped the iceberg on discovering & knowing that eternity hardly seems time enough (pun intended). Decisions are conflicts. Should I lay in bed or take a shower. Maybe not conflicts in the sense of right & wrong. But still conflicts.

Answer 3

The human psyche is not going to heaven, only the soul. You will never sleep, you will be so busy doing everything you did on earth that made you happy and then some. When you have the urge for change, you create anything your hearts desires. You will never run out of things to do, just by thought you can go anywhere in the universe you want to. Just grab your friends and take off to another planet, who knows you might want to create one of your own, like the Mormon's believe. Promise you won't have time to be bored, and besides, there is not time or space where you are going. Happy Landing, send me a telepathic email and keep me posted.
Oh, I forgot, you can reincarnate at any time or at any place if you desire to check out for a while. Wonderful options. Try going into a black hole just to prove Steven Hawkins wrong, look Steve, I got out of one and you said it was impossible. Talk about a challenge and it just gets better.

Answer 4

I could handle it with no problem! Actually, I'm looking forward to it.

I am constantly faced with challenges and conflicts and I find it absolutely exhausting and sickening, i.e., IBS, high blood pressure, skin break outs, etc. I don't need negative stuff to stimulate me because that's not the type of stimulation I want!

I guess without problems, we would turn to focusing on and communing with God and learning every answer we ever wanted to know. I'd also take in the beauty of heaven. I also think we would help those souls "in the land of the living,"who are still on earth, or the "valley of tears," as the rosary prayer puts it. That's what the saints that have gone before us do.

Answer 5

The idea that we will all sit around on a cloud and play harps does sound boring to me too.
If we are anything like we are now, we will all need some sort of work to do in heaven. The work will be what we are suited for and what we will love doing. I think we are preparing for these jobs right here on earth as we learn from living and loving.

Answer 6

No. But the elect shall become a new order of being with an incredibly higher level of consciousness than the human psyche. Just imagine an eternity of bliss. What can beat that?

Answer 7

Could the human psyche handle an eternity free of challenges and conflict?

I think not.....

Answer 8

Yes, the human psuche could, BUTT challenges and conflicts help us grow when we meet them and resolve them in ways that are beneficial for all of humanity. We do NOT need the challenges of fascist war machines or insane conflicts spawned by man's age-old greed and lust for land, for power and more and more....

Answer 9

My dad grew to become right into a unfastened mason. He have been given as intense as a 32 degree mason and a shriner. They do different solid paintings with burn sufferers interior the Shriner's Hospitals. The donations they get bypass to those who won't be able to pay for the medical doctors and wellness center stay. The unfastened Masons grew to become into like his church. It grew to become into his perception device. i understand that with a view to alter right into a 32 degree mason you're able to desire to belive in God.

Answer 10

The human psyche will never need to handle eternity. It will never be found in heaven.

Answer 11

Personally, I would enjoy having no challenges to face, hurdles to jump or struggles to overcome. Heaven sounds perfect to me...paradise....no worries.

As far as not having anyone to help, well, I think Heaven will be full of people doing things, moving things, building things....they'll need help.