Does technology exist in Heaven?

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Does technology exist in Heaven? Surely it must! If so, imagine how much more advanced the technology of Heaven must be compared to that which we see here on earth! If Heaven is real, why do we pretend that technology is our creation?
 
I suppose it could…but really, we will be provided for by supernatural means.
 
Of course! St. Peter needs to upgrade from that big book to an iPad and process the dead faster.
 
I should be thrilled that I received a response at all on this one :o, but seriously, if we have a physical body in heaven it stands to reason that there must be physical technology in heaven.

Where does our technology here on earth come from? Surely not from people like you and I!
 
I know that in heaven they will have remote controls that never get lost in the living room.

But in all seriousness, after the resurrection, we won’t have any need for technology. We’ll be in heaven. According to Saint Thomas, we won’t have any disease, hunger, thirst, or death (called “impassibility”). Nothing can hold us back (called “subtility”). We won’t need to get anywhere faster because the body will be completely obedient to the spirit(called “agility”). And we will have true beauty, just as our justified souls are beautiful (called “clarity”). See Summa Theologica, Supplement to the Third Part, questions 75-86. newadvent.org/summa/5.htm
 
I know that in heaven they will have remote controls that never get lost in the living room.

But in all seriousness, after the resurrection, we won’t have any need for technology. We’ll be in heaven. According to Saint Thomas, we won’t have any disease, hunger, thirst, or death (called “impassibility”). Nothing can hold us back (called “subtility”). We won’t need to get anywhere faster because the body will be completely obedient to the spirit(called “agility”). And we will have true beauty, just as our justified souls are beautiful (called “clarity”). See Summa Theologica, Supplement to the Third Part, questions 75-86. newadvent.org/summa/5.htm
Thanks, that’s a help, but it still does not get at my suspicion that our earthly technology comes from heaven ( or some other upper world).
 
No. There is no mention of technology in heaven. Our bodies will be transformed. Jesus referred to those in heaven and said that our ways are not your ways. Man has been able to manipulate nature and create tools and devices, but there is no mention of any tools or devices in heaven, only that Jesus said He would prepare a place for us, and that “in my Father’s house there are many mansions.”

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Ed
 
In heaven, there are no bodies, ergo no technology. Remember: after death, our souls go to heaven, but our bodies remain separated (as dead worm food).

After the Second Coming, our bodies are remade. The Earth is recreated, wiping out the Fall. Our souls are reunited with our bodies, not in heaven (which remains a spiritual realm), but on the recreated Earth (which is united with but distinct from Heaven).

On the recreated Earth, there will certainly be technology of some sort, simply because any manipulation of nature technically creates technology. You build a house: technology. You pick up a stick off the ground and use it as a walking stick: technology. Grab a stick, put a string on it, bait it, throw it in the river, that’s a fishing pole: technology. Write a book: that’s a pen and paper and binding, which is three technologies in one! You forge metal, blow glass, build a lens, and put it all together to make a rudimentary telescope: technology. You press intricately patterened silicon into a thin semiconductor substrate, you’ve got yourself an integrated circuit, and pretty soon a computer: technology.

We will certainly not need technology to survive in the recreated Earth, as Thomas demonstrated in the Summa. But there’s a lot of cool stuff we would want to do that would be very difficult without some kind of tech. Unless we’re giving up fishing, reading, writing, skywatching, and warming ourselves by the fire in our cozy parlors in the new world. And I admit that that’s possible, but doesn’t seem all that likely to me.

As with many, many questions about the details of man’s final destiny, this question is fundamentally unanswerable, because we simply lack enough data to build firm premises from which we can launch a sound argument that reaches a definite conclusion. But the speculating is certainly fun!

As for the origin of technology in this world, we can attribute divine inspiration to many (in some sense, to all) of the works of Man, but, since technology is a manipulation of the natural physical world, and the natural physical world exists in this realm only and not in Heaven, all technology originates primarily from living, physical creatures – i.e. living human beings.
 
In heaven, there are no bodies, ergo no technology. Remember: after death, our souls go to heaven, but our bodies remain separated (as dead worm food).
What about Christ and the Virgin Mary in Heaven? Surely they have physical bodies!
 
I am going to weasel out of that question by answering that Christ and Mary are rather exceptional cases, in more ways than just that. On the whole, we have been well-assured from many sources that Heaven is not a realm of matter, but a realm of spirit only.
 
In heaven, there are no bodies, ergo no technology. Remember: after death, our souls go to heaven, but our bodies remain separated (as dead worm food).
Remember the Apostle’s Creed?
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
 
Folks, I’m not spouting crazy speculative opinion here. This is ancient dogma:

CCC said:
997 What is “rising”? In death, the separation of the soul from the body, the human body decays and the soul goes to meet God, while awaiting its reunion with its glorified body. God, in his almighty power, will definitively grant incorruptible life to our bodies by reuniting them with our souls, through the power of Jesus’ Resurrection.

1001 When? Definitively “at the last day,” “at the end of the world.” 557 Indeed, the resurrection of the dead is closely associated with Christ’s Parousia:
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For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ will rise first.558

vatican.va/archive/catechism/p123a11.htm

The current corporeality of Jesus, Mary, and Elijah (Enoch seems considerably more suspect to me), is an issue you’re going to have to take up with the Church, not with me. All I know is, though we immediately share in the beatific vision upon being freed from purgatory, we are deprived of our bodies for a very, very long time after death.
 
You guys are both sort of right. Immediately after death, our souls alone go to heaven. After the Resurrection, God takes the elect to heaven body and soul.
 
I am going to weasel out of that question by answering that Christ and Mary are rather exceptional cases, in more ways than just that. On the whole, we have been well-assured from many sources that Heaven is not a realm of matter, but a realm of spirit only.
I’m sorry but that is a question you can not weasel out of. If Christ and Mary’s bodies were taken to heaven, then matter exists within, therefore making it a place that could be measurable. This is another “pick and chose” fallacy, and avoiding contradicting stories.
 
I am going to weasel out of that question by answering that Christ and Mary are rather exceptional cases, in more ways than just that. On the whole, we have been well-assured from many sources that Heaven is not a realm of matter, but a realm of spirit only.
That may well be so; but even the Angels are not pure spirit, I believe their existence includes a material element. Not sure who mentioned this - Duns Scotus perhaps.
 
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