How can souls be happy?

[Sonny1954]

Every Catholic tells me this question is really a non-starter. But it is a great concern to me.

How can souls be happy without their bodies? The human being supposedly consists of both material and spirit. A body without a soul is called a Zombie in popular literature; a type of monster. (though we know they don’t exist). In Heaven, however, we know that beings exist as souls without bodies – half-human one might say.

Since the final resurrection will not be for who-knows-how-many years, how can the souls be happy being incomplete, living half alive?

Perhaps for people of great faith, this isn’t problem. For me, however, it doesn’t make Heaven much to look forward to, other than it being better than Hell.

Respectful comment welcome. Please no flamers.

 

[bkayw]

God created our human bodies and our brains and then He gave each of us a connection to Him through our souls.

God the Father is Spirit and our souls will return to Him. In this earthly world, we have a much greater understanding of the conditions of our bodies than we do our souls.

Here, our bodies will inform our mind and together they influence our mental thoughts. In the same way, if you do damage to the body - the mind and soul suffers.

In this world (realm of reality) we have to search out and inventory the condition of our souls. I can’t really ever say that my soul feels happy today (the way that I can talk about my mental moods).

Upon our death, the condition and conditioning of our souls will be of primary importance in relationship to the Trinity and to the communion of saints. The degree to which we experience charity and love of God, self and others will influence the condition of our soul.

I’m 50 and my back already hurts most days, every day My eyesight needs correction to see upclose (this after Lasik), I have a perrenial weight problem, My Dad is 91, he’s had a stroke that he battled back from, but remains in a wheelchair.

I still suffer the fear of death, but I don’t despair the loss of the human body.

 

[GEddie]

I’m 50 and my back already hurts most days, every day My eyesight needs correction to see upclose (this after Lasik), I have a perrenial weight problem, My Dad is 91, he’s had a stroke that he battled back from, but remains in a wheelchair.

I still suffer the fear of death, but I don’t despair the loss of the human body.

What else is there to fear in death, beyond losing your human body?

 

[GEddie]

Every Catholic tells me this question is really a non-starter. But it is a great concern to me.

For me, too.

How can souls be happy without their bodies? …Since the final resurrection will not be for who-knows-how-many years, how can the souls be happy being incomplete, living half alive?

Perhaps for people of great faith, this isn’t problem. For me, however, it doesn’t make Heaven much to look forward to, other than it being better than Hell.

Respectful comment welcome. Please no flamers.

The answer is; you won’t experience those “many years” being “half alive.” To be alive at all, you need to be embodied; and time is a property of matter. Divested of this matter, you lapse out of time, to awaken fully reassembled in Eternity. Just as light has no time (since it reduces to zero at the speed of light C), pure life, or soul, being immaterial, has no time. You will open your new eyes to the radiance of our LORD’s presence.

God Bless and ICXC NIKA!

 

[Sonny1954]

Just so I understand, are you suggesting something like soul sleep during which we are unaware that our body and soul are separated? Or that each of us has his/her own Resurrection Day, in essence, receiving our glorified body upon entering Heaven?

Please tell me if I’ve misinterpreted you.

 

[EmeraldWings]

how can souls be happy in heaven without the body? simple, because they will have God,
ask yourself, how are the angels happy without a body, and how are animals happy without a soul?
we will be just fine without our bodies, we don’t need to understand right now, you’ll find out when you get there, because honestly no one can explain to you how it feels or what it’s like in heaven, we don’t even understand the soul to begin to understand it’s feelings.
“eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man, what things God hath prepared for them that love him.”

“for them that love Him”…that should be your only concern, heaven is a place we go to love God and be with Him forever, and we will never stop growing in our love for God,
God made us to be with Him and love Him, that is our purpose in life, that is the only place we will truly feel right, and have true peace and happiness,
God already loves you with an “everlasting love”, He has nothing to prove, we are here to prove ourselves and to grow in love for Him,
it is a learning and growing process, and so even if you haven’t gotten very far yet, you have alot of time still.

well…sorry if that got alittle off subject, but i hope this helps anyways, take care.

 

[GEddie]

Just so I understand, are you suggesting something like soul sleep during which we are unaware that our body and soul are separated? Or that each of us has his/her own Resurrection Day, in essence, receiving our glorified body upon entering Heaven?

Please tell me if I’ve misinterpreted you.

More like the 2nd.

Because your “life” (which is in essence what a “soul” is) exits from time in death, you do not experience the “time spent dead” even by being asleep. Souls do not expereince sleep, anyhow, sleep is a body function; you need a body even to sleep

You will emerge into Eternity, instantly upon entering the next life; and instantly be fully reassembled to resume your aliveness in the embrace of our LORD

God Bless and ICXC NIKA.