Is Heaven eternal

[CatholicTimmy]

I am not sure if this is the right forum topic, but I have been thinking about this for a while. If a soul is in Heaven and Heaven is eternal, but at the final judgement at the end of time, the dead are resurrected, body and soul, how is heaven eternal? Is the new Earth sort of combined with with Heaven?
I know we can’t fully comprehend what will happen, but I didn’t know if there is a teaching on this.

I would love to know!
Thanks!

 

[kib]

I have thought about this quite a bit myself, though, I haven’t done anything to learn about it. The best I can tell you is that either Thomas Aquinas or Augustine struggled with this also, I can’t remember which.

 

[Edward_H]

I am not sure if this is the right forum topic, but I have been thinking about this for a while. If a soul is in Heaven and Heaven is eternal, but at the final judgement at the end of time, the dead are resurrected, body and soul, how is heaven eternal? Is the new Earth sort of combined with with Heaven?
I know we can’t fully comprehend what will happen, but I didn’t know if there is a teaching on this.

I would love to know!
Thanks!

Yes, I think it’s a bit of mystery…what’s the “exchange rate” between earth which has time, and heaven which doesn’t exist in time?

Heaven is not in time. So some of our ways of thinking are limited by this “unlimit.”

 

[GEddie]

You emerge from time in death, because time is an effect of the entropy in the material of our human bodies. So, for you, your death will be “the end of time.” You will be reassembled in the next life as an eternal being, pneumatikon soma. Yes, Heaven is eternal.

God Bless and ICXC NIKA!

 

[ConstantineTG]

I could be wrong in my understanding of this, but the current heaven has an “expiry date”. Jesus will bring a new heaven and a new earth at the end of time. Those will be eternal.

 

[godisrealyes]

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