-I see. Explain one unexplainable paradox with yet another unexplainable paradox, and say it’s all okay since said paradoxes are overseen somehow by an omnipotent being, capable of doing anything you can- or cannot- imagine. We can’t think of it, we can’t explain it, but don’t worry, God can so it’s all good.
Everything happening all at once? How does that work? A baby is being born at the same instant it’s being conceived which is the same time he’s leaving for college, all the while both the father and mother are also simultaneously being conceived, born, taught and dying?
Fine, there’s no birth or death in Heaven. But “time” must still occur, or else you’re already in Heaven having that nonconversation with Mark Twain- since, in Twain’s point of view, everything is already happening at once. Your death in however many years and supposed and assumed forthwith attendance in heaven to speak with Twain, would then be a “new” experience for ol’ Sam. Thus, events cannot be happening “all at once.”
And if, for some further leap of illogic, you assume “you’re already there”, then the whole being a good person to gain admittance to heaven is something of an empty sham, is it not?
So, basically, either time- in some form- must pass in Heaven (events occur with some form of linear progression) or those hapless souls are held insensate, in some sort of stasis, disllowed any form of interaction.
Or, the possibility which is far more likely, there is no Heaven. An ‘eternity of oblivion’- which I believe is what D the G states is the original translation- means just that. You die, your body decays, it’s atoms and energy scattering in concordance with entropic law, the data which makes up you- your thoughts, personality and memories- is lost when the brain can no longer support the neurochemical balance.
That which makes up “you” is lost, never to be seen again, scattered to the winds… yes, for an eternity.
