Not going to be solved, not going to get answered, not even relevant to those outside a small slice of christianity:
If I die as a child, do I grow up in heaven (or hell, as the case may be)?
Or do I spend eternity as a child?
Assuming, arguendo, in the “afterlife”, it would seem that you would become a “spirit” that is not capable of being defined in terms of physical maturity or growth as mortals know it.
I don’t know, but the Jehovah’s Witnesses’ tracts always depict lots of smiling, racially diverse children in their drawings of Paradise on Earth. Everyone is grinning, most holding baskets overflowing with tasty fruit, while they watch the children petting the lions and such. In the background, it is perpetually circa May 24: green fields, flowers, picnicking families. Oddly, everyone wears brand-new, freshly pressed clothing. Where do they get them? Is anyone in this day and age capable of weaving a minty new Polo shirt on a hand loom?
Will there be room for spiritual and/or mental growth in heaven? Or when you die, are you already “done”? I’d hate to spend eternity as a newborn. Even the most saintly newborn is helplessly incontinent.
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I don’t really know for sure yet. I will know when I’m with my little grandson, Dawson, again.
Right now my thought is that one’s spirit is ageless and measurement of time is meaningless in eternity. Whether or not I see a 19 month old Dawson running to me, I’ll know him just the same and my heart will be filled with joy. 