In a place like paradise/heaven where there is eternal life and supposedly eternal happiness as promised by a God....
How are you going to recognise happiness after a while if you cannot compare it to anything? Wouldn´t this happiness just flow out into a grey matter of meaningless nothing?
2007-11-15 15:58:42 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
You are thinking in human terms---we will be in our glorified bodies in a place that "eye hath not seen". The glory of the presence of God will be enough to bring everlasting incomparable joy.
I also look at it this way.....God created the world as we know it albeit a more perfect one in just 6 days but Jesus promised He was going to prepare us a place and that's been almost 2000 years!
There will also be plenty of things to keep us busy I believe--I'm looking forward to seeing the people I know who have gone on before, and to meeting some of the great heroes of the faith that I have read about in the Bible and church history. I believe that there will be plenty of new things to explore and even work to do as we worship and fellowship together.
Now just dying and then nothingness as the body decays back to dust (as athiests believe) there's some grey meaningless nothing for you!
2007-11-15 16:06:26 · answer #1 · answered by arklatexrat 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Everyone can enjoy exactly the same amount of happiness in the Paradise.
2007-11-15 16:05:00 · answer #2 · answered by Wenjie Z 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who says there will not be media to remind us of this world’s state?
Does not one with a great life see evil in the news paper?
Can he not compare it with his own environment?
What Jehovah will have in his new world is most likely going to amaze us.
2007-11-15 16:24:29 · answer #3 · answered by AEH101 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I know and God knows it's hard for us to understand true happiness. But you may well know that having material things and close associates does not assure one of genuine, lasting happiness. Some persons have the richest of food in abundance and surround themselves with modern luxuries; yet happiness eludes them. Two years before he died, multimillionaire oilman J. P. Getty observed: "Money doesn't necessarily have any connection with happiness. Maybe with unhappiness." (1 Tim. 6:9, 10) Nor will money contribute to our having true happiness if those professing to care for us are persons whose companionship is being bought somehow.-Prov. 19:6.
It has been observed that, in a way, happiness is a great paradox. Though the word "happiness" may bring to mind pleasant conditions, it actually can grow in any soil, live under any conditions, defy any environment. Happiness is not so much what we have as what we are. That is the reason why many who live in luxury are not particularly happy, while some who have relatively little and whose lives are rather simple do find happiness. Furthermore, you may have met some hospitalized or handicapped persons who have a sunny disposition, a cheerful, happy outlook. True, they are not pleased with being ill or crippled and would like it to be otherwise. (Acts 3:1-8) Yet they find reason for happiness in life.
In another way, too, we add to our happiness by recognizing our spiritual need and by having a relationship with God. We have already mentioned that accepting God's moral standards helps us to avoid problems, but doing so goes beyond that. We actually need a reasonable, consistent set of values. God's Word fills that need perfectly. And God's standards are harmonious with our inherent sense of conscience. So as we comply with them we feel better, more comfortable, more at peace. (Ps. 1:1-4; Rom. 2:14, 15) We can even help our children toward happiness by sharing God's standards with them. Dr. Robert Coles of Harvard University observed about youths:
'They need discipline not only to tame their excesses of emotion but discipline also connected to stated and clarified moral values. They need something to believe in that is larger than their own appetites and urges. . . . They need a larger view of the world, a moral context, as it were-a faith that addresses itself to the meaning of this life we all live.'
It is fair to say, then, that true happiness is linked with recognizing our spiritual need and having a relationship with God, even as the Bible accurately indicated: "Happy is the able-bodied man that has put Jehovah as his trust," that "takes refuge in him," that is "in fear of Jehovah' that walks "in the law of Jehovah," and that with 'all his heart keeps searching for God.' (Ps. 40:4; 34:8; 112:1; 119:1, 2) God sincerely wants to extend his love to us and to come into a relationship with us. Are we consistently showing that we cherish having a relationship with him?-Rom. 8:38, 39.
2007-11-15 16:16:14 · answer #4 · answered by EBONY 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bible says its beyond anything we have ever imagined!!!!!!!!!
wonder why youre so concerned about this if you hate this idea of ETERnal life..
2007-11-15 16:06:39 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Even a blind man can tell when he's standing in the Sun.
2007-11-15 16:01:23 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Maybe you can fly in paradise and have power.
2007-11-15 16:02:36 · answer #7 · answered by Near of DN 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Ookkkkk....That made absolutely no sense!
2007-11-15 16:08:13 · answer #8 · answered by bella s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah, it is a boring place...all you do is look for dead people or wait for other people to die so you can say "hey"!
2007-11-15 16:02:38 · answer #9 · answered by justagorilla 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No
2007-11-15 16:03:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋