Is beatific vision unchanging?

[Nanotwerp]

From one source, I’ve heard that beatific vision and theosis are an eternally changing thing in which you contemplate God more and more. From another source, I’ve heard that once we get into Heaven, we understand God more perfect dependent on our merit (which I believe). The NewAdvent article of Heaven states that we cannot possibly get a higher level of beatific vision in Heaven. I really hate the full idea of the second theory. Will we be able to see God in a degree of perfection based on our works and not be able to contemplate it any more? Or is this an eternal, ongoing process of putting in more and more understanding and contemplation?

 

[GEddie]

Life everlasting is not timebound, and so not subject to “change” as we understand it.

ICXC NIKA.

 

[Beryllos]

Do not “hate” it. Whatever it is, it will be perfectly just, and you will be perfectly happy with it.

 

[Nanotwerp]

Do not “hate” it. Whatever it is, it will be perfectly just, and you will be perfectly happy with it.

It is just that I’ve always wanted to best and to not miss out. To miss out for eternity just makes me sad. I know it is already heaven, and is perfection by default, but I want the most a human can get, and more.

 

[Beryllos]

Do you remember the parable of the The Workers in the Vineyard? (Matthew 20:1-16)

 

[Richca]

From one source, I’ve heard that beatific vision and theosis are an eternally changing thing in which you contemplate God more and more. From another source, I’ve heard that once we get into Heaven, we understand God more perfect dependent on our merit (which I believe). The NewAdvent article of Heaven states that we cannot possibly get a higher level of beatific vision in Heaven. I really hate the full idea of the second theory. Will we be able to see God in a degree of perfection based on our works and not be able to contemplate it any more? Or is this an eternal, ongoing process of putting in more and more understanding and contemplation?

St Paul says “The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness” (1 Corinthians 15:41). And Jesus said there are many mansions in heaven. So in heaven, there are degrees of glory which angels and human beings partake of God’s goodness and glory in a more or less way according to the degree of an angels’ or humans’ merit and the degree of glory to which God has assigned to each particular angel or human. For example, the Blessed Virgin Mary’s glory and vision of God in heaven is greater than any other one of God’s creatures. This means that Mary sees and knows God more than any other creature. However, because God is infinite, the beatific vision will always fill us with wonder. We will never grow tired of seeing God or be bored. For as long as something remains in wonder, it continues to stimulate desire and thus will the beatific vision of God’s essence be for us. We are finite while God is infinite. We will never comprehend God as God see’s himself. Gazing upon God for all eternity will always fill us with wonder for God’s being is infinite, measureless, boundless.