Am i in heaven right now?

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God knows whether or not i go to heaven or hell.

If i made it to heaven, is it possible that I am in heaven right now looking back at me on the planet earth?

I would just like to see what other Catholics think of that concept.
 
MindOverMatter said:
God knows whether or not i go to heaven or hell.

If i made it to heaven, is it possible that I am in heaven right now looking back at me on the planet earth?

I would just like to see what other Catholics think of that concept.
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Since God and Heaven are eternal and not time-dependent, and you would be with God, then yes. Maybe it’s as if you write an autobiography when you die. Before you die, you won’t know everything that will be written in it. After you die, you see it as a whole, and the story (earthly life in time) is over. The book becomes part of your eternal life.

Does this make sense, or am I rambling?🤷
 
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Since God and Heaven are eternal and not time-dependent, and you would be with God, then yes. Maybe it’s as if you write an autobiography when you die. Before you die, you won’t know everything that will be written in it. After you die, you see it as a whole, and the story (earthly life in time) is over. The book becomes part of your eternal life.

Does this make sense, or am I rambling?🤷
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No; it makes perfect sense. Its just feels mind boggling to me sometimes when i think about it; that a more wiser and infinetly more happier version of me, is watching me. I hope that i am that person in heaven. I geuss thats why i like thinking about it.

Thanks for posting. God bless.
 
Oh, the mind is a wonderful thing.

Looking at future and past mentally comes into play here. I can look at the past with full senses since I was there at that time and place in full reality. The future is a bit tougher since if I had never been to Paris, but ‘imagined’ how it would be by those who had been, some of the blanks would be hard to fill in.

If we are living in the ‘present’ but able to fully recall the past (even a minute, or a day, or a week, or a decade ago), although as the story goes, we cannot remember tomorrow since the flow of the story has not got there yet, at what time are we living in? Perhaps, imagination and planning does have merit in that it comes back from the future to the present to add extra meaning to the now that wasn’t there the first time in it. Like when we feel gratitude for something that would not with knowledge of yesterday and today have that implication without some handle on tomorrow.

To step back to now, am I living with the body priority? With the mind priority? With the soul priority? I call the mind the ‘Middleman’… it can go either way… or both. So, are our beliefs based on what ‘did’ happen in the future sense related to what happened now and how we handled it? Or are we merely projecting by what our Faith teaches us? And, if our Faith is already with us, could of it been sealed in our being at the last chapter of our life before the story began?

Now you got me thinking…
 
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Its just feels mind boggling to me sometimes when i think about it;
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Hi MindOverMatter,

Maybe it feels mind boggling because that’s what it is? Personally, I think it’s somewhat nonsensical, but I am open to other views.

Among its difficulties, I see one right out of the gate. Why do you limit “you” to “you right now” and “you in Heaven”? Isn’t there a “you 5 years ago” and a “you two seconds ago” and a “you 12 seconds hence”?

So, would the “you in heaven” be looking at 3 Billion “you’s” on Earth?

VC
 
Michael_David said:
And, if our Faith is already with us, could of it been sealed in our being at the last chapter of our life before the story began?

Now you got me thinking…
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There is a passage in the bible, that i can’t quite remmember, but it goes something like…“They will be astonished that the time of the beast has already passed, and is yet still to come.”

Its like a time loop going back on its self. Pehaps thats why we experience de-ja-vu?
 
MindOverMatter said:
God knows whether or not i go to heaven or hell.

If i made it to heaven, is it possible that I am in heaven right now looking back at me on the planet earth?

I would just like to see what other Catholics think of that concept.
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Reply: Nope!

The closest you (or me) are goimg to get while shackled with our human bodies, is when we receive worthily, the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Our Glorified Jesus in Holy Communion:D

PJM m.c.
 
PJM said:
Reply: Nope!

The closest you (or me) are goimg to get while shackled with our human bodies, is when we receive worthily, the Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity, of Our Glorified Jesus in Holy Communion:D

PJM m.c.
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🙂 🙂 Thats all i Got to say.
 
Nope, not Heaven yet… There is still suffering, crime, evil…etc

IF this were Heaven, I could eat all the ice cream I want without getting sick or fat…
 
If one were in Heaven, wouldn’t one have knowledge of that fact? In other words, I wouldn’t have to ask, right?
 
If one were in Heaven, wouldn’t one have knowledge of that fact? In other words, I wouldn’t have to ask, right?

Are you saying that if one went from life here to Purgatory, that it would be hard to know they did?

Add, what is heaven like?
 
I don’t really think I said anything of the sort. All I meant was, according to the Bible, we will “know as we are known.” I assume that those in Heaven have knowledge of their place of residence.
 
OK…

Let’s go this way: The Kingdom of Heaven as contrasted to living on Earth… or, while living on Earth.
 
OR:

If Christ was born in heaven when He became incarnate, since that was His destination then why would He spend His life proclaiming how we are to get to somwhere we already are??

🤷 :hmmm:
 
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