Ok so I was thinking that if Heaven is perfect and free of sadness and lonlieness and fear and all that bad stuff, then what would happen if your family and friends didnt make it to heaven for some reason........does that mean you wouldnt be sad about it? and also i have a hard time beliving in perfection because i see life as kinda like a video game........its no fun if its too easy and you have no problems.......even thought adversity and hard times are a *****, arent they nescceary?
2007-12-23 06:32:48 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
and the follow-up question: "are you stuck with the clothes you die with or are buried with for all eternity?" ...now that would be hell.
2007-12-23 16:52:04 · answer #1 · answered by Its not me Its u 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Tolstoy said that all happy family are boring, since they are all the same but all unhappy families are unhappy for so many different reasons and thus are interesting.
The Matrix actually explicitly says as a much - "That the first version of the matrix was a perfect world , where there was no suffering, but our primitive minds thought it was a dream and kept trying to - wake up....it was a disaster."
Similarly, Dante's Inferno, spends about 60 pages on Heaven and Purgatory and then another 300 on the lurid details of Hell.
It's actually not the case that heaven is some sort of perfected existential disneyworld for the soul, actual Christian theology simply states (regarding heaven and hell) that heaven is essentially being in proximity to God, and that Hell is being purposefully put away from God.
Any statements regarding other stuff such as bliss and happiness or demons and suffering as such are medieval embellishments.
However the whole subject may be moot if in fact the Universe is actually as described by Douglas Adams,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIc5OyNimlY.
2007-12-23 14:48:05 · answer #2 · answered by Mark T 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Those who ask such questions fall into the category of those who asked Jesus a similar question. The Pharisees said that a certain woman had seven consecutive husbands, so whose wife will she be in heaven (Mark 12:23)? Jesus answered by saying that they neither knew the Scriptures nor the power of God. The unregenerate mind has no concept of God’s mind or His infinite power. If God can speak the sun into existence; if He can see every thought of every human heart at the same time; if He can create the human eye with its 137,000,000 light-sensitive cells, then He can handle the minor details of our eternal salvation.
John writes that in heaven "we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2), so perhaps we will be fully satisfied that God is perfectly just and merciful, and that He gave every individual the opportunity to accept or reject Him. However He works it out, God promises that there will not be sorrow or crying in heaven. Our focus in heaven won’t be on our loss, but on our gain.
"life would be boring if we didn't have evil!" well, I don't know about you but most people who believe in God simply want that pleasant "boring" life without evil.
2007-12-26 13:37:29 · answer #3 · answered by Evolution - of - the - gaps 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think heaven is more of a state of being rather than a physical place. So if it is a state of being, would heaven be something we create for our own personal taste and comfort? So essentially we would have whatever or whomever we wish to see. I guess we won't know for sure until we get there.
2007-12-23 14:42:27 · answer #4 · answered by auntcookie84 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Aren't Heaven and Hell, really just states of mind?
2007-12-23 14:41:39 · answer #5 · answered by SophiaSeeker 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't mix brown and clear liquors in the same night.
2007-12-23 14:48:14 · answer #6 · answered by hfrankmann 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven?
They made this things for u to keep your attention to this things, and not politic and ...
2007-12-23 14:41:44 · answer #7 · answered by SiNa 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋