Alright Christians, I have a question for you. What is heaven like? Does every Christian look at heaven differently or is there one specific way heaven is? And where in the Word is heaven described? Personally, I haven’t thought about what heaven meant to me until I heard a man ask a Christian man, “So you’re living your life this way to get into heaven? Well whats heaven anyways?” And the Christian man couldn’t answer so the guy asked, “If you don’t know what heaven is, why would you want to dedicate your life to getting there?” I pose the question to youse.
Amazing.
“The kingdom of heaven is like a merchant looking for fine pearls. When he found one of great value, he went away and sold everything he had and bought it.” — Jesus
“[…]Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” – Revelation 21:3-4
Heaven isn’t too far away.
Closer to it every day.
Yer pal,
Satan
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Heaven?
Heaven is a place.
A place where nothing…nothing ever happens.
Dr. J
Heaven is the state of being in perfect relationship with God. And I don’t live the way I do in order to get into Heaven, but because I believe my creator knows my reason for existance better than I do. Given a creator God, rebellion against Him is just plain dumb. If you don’t believe in a creator, then rebellion against your own conscience seems to be almost as foolish. I do not seek God to gain happiness but truth. If I did not believe that Jesus of Nazareth was the Messiah, then I would convert to Judaism. My reading of the old testament leads me to believe that the Jews were told to follow God because it was the right thing to do, not because they would get something out of it. If I owned a Jeep (I wish) I could choose to race it on the road rather that the dirt, but it would be very stupid, as that is not what it was designed for. Same with me. Given that I believe I was created, then it stands to reason my creator knows why bettter than I do. However, I am given the choice. Thus I am a fanatic anti-fanatic. And a libertarian to a large degree.
http://www.baen.com/chapters/axes.htm
“Paradise
Is exactly like
where you are right now
only much
much
better” – some 80s band.
Heaven is just like Hell, minus the eternal torment. 
There is a difference between heaven and the kingdom of God on Earth, right?
Laurie Anderson.
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Hmm…actually, that’s Paradise. Or maybe Limbo. The idea (one of the ideas) is, rightous souls who died before Jesus were not tormented, but were denied access to the presence of God. Afterwards, Jesus took all the REALLY righous ones (Moses etc.) to Heaven which is Paradise plus God. Like, you’re at a great party, but it doesn’t really get going till the guest of honor shows up.
So, Heaven is getting to look on the face of God.
Apparently he’s very cute.
“So, Heaven is getting to look on the face of God.
Apparently he’s very cute.”
I hear people have died just by seeing his face.
What is heaven . . . I could go on for days about this, but I think I’ll stick to this: once you die, Christians (from what I have learned) believe that you, if you have sinned (and not gotten forgiven for it, and not done penance and such), you go to purgatory, where if you are sorry for what you did that you shouldn’t have done, and you want to go to heaven, you wait until your soul has been cleanses of sin. How long that lasts is anybody’s guess, as (far as I know) nobody’s even given a conversion factor.
So when you’re done being cleansed, you go to heaven, so long as you want to. It’s basically a state of being with God, in a closer sense than prayer or meditation, from what I can tell (from religious education). You apparently learn all the stuff you can’t understand with your earthly body, such as how that whole Trinity thing works.
There’s so much more than can be put into words . . . and I know y’all will think I’m crazy for saying all this, like heaven is a package and you have to read the directions just so . . . but you don’t:) Which is one of the way cool things about it. And yes, I am aware that I don’t make much sense. There’s plenty about heaven/the kingdom of God in the Bible.
I, of course, am certain that Heaven is a fiction, one about which much has been written, though not as much as has been written about Hell. That said, the treatment of it that I have found most beautiful comes from Whitehead’s Process Theology (at least, that is where I ran across it. I would be surprised if it did not have antecedents in the literature.)
Heaven is union with the Godhead, an envelopment that transcends the individual without consuming individuality.
Hell is simply the lack of such union. There is no torture, no fire, no devils, no punishment. The separatin from Godhead is not inflicted upon the “sinner”, it is an unavoidable consequnce of individual free will.
Then again, I think Belinda Carlisle said Heaven was a place on Earth.
I think Satan had the right answer.
Though Spiritus had a pretty good take on it too.
Hmmm…If David or slythe comes up with a good definition, I’m gonna start wondering what’s up here! ;j
What is heaven?
It’s where all your dreams come true.
Indeed she did. The relevant question I would like to ask her is: Where on earth is it?
Forget that, Kevin Costner gave the secret away a decade ago. Just go to Iowa and look for the diamond in the cornfield
You see there are these clouds. And you get wings, and a little gold ring that floats over your head, see? And you get a harp (I assume a god-given talent for music comes with it). Then what you do is… um… play chess with Einstein and philosophise with Socrates, and hang out with your dead wife and stuff.
Oh, and there’ll be lots of jungles and pandas and tigers and things. I saw it in a brochure.
And, no shit (a Christian friend of mine told me this once) you get to zoom around the Universe like you’re in an invisible spacecraft or something.
And this goes on for EVER MORE, which is a heck of a long time. I hope I won’t get bored.
Oh that’s right, I’m a pagan, so I won’t be going there. Well, that’s okay then.
Welcome to Heaven, here’s your harp.
Welcome to Hell, here’s your accordion :D:D:D
By the way, if there is a Heaven, Einstein isn’t there.
Best as can figure it, Heaven is either a vague Biblical verse, a place where all your dreams come true(thanks, NOW what do I do?), feeling constant extacy(how utterly tiring), or a state of mind.
I always thought Heaven was a gay bar.