Is heaven too good to be true?

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Heaven is exactly what Jesus tells us it is. What do you think it is?
 
I don’t know how we can say it’s “too good to be true”. Scripture tells us that eye has not seen…etc. We can’t fathom how great it will be.
It’s apparently not measurable by human standards.
Sounds fab though! 😃
 
If it isn’t perfect joy with God, it wouldn’t be worth all the sacrifices we must make to go there!
 
pianistclare said:
I don’t know how we can say it’s “too good to be true”. Scripture tells us that eye has not seen…etc. We can’t fathom how great it will be.
It’s apparently not measurable by human standards.
Sounds fab though! 😃
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If we believe in God’s love it must be true.🙂
 
truetofaith said:
If it isn’t perfect joy with God, it wouldn’t be worth all the sacrifices we must make to go there!
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Precisely, although some have to suffer far more than others. Their consolation is that they will be closer to Jesus who suffered for all of us but particularly for them.
 
Just being released from death, and never having to face it again would be more than I can wrap my mind around.

ICXC NIKA
 
Don’t know. Haven’t been there. Hope to get a one way ticket one day.👍
 
I don’t believe that Heaven is too good to be true, but I often wonder if it would be too good to be true for me to get there…I’m very impulsive about committing certain mortal sins and commit them a lot…it’s not at all helped by the fact that most of the time I’m feeling emotionally apathetic or some very vague feeling I can hardly perceive. On an intellectual and spiritual level I care though…
 
If there is no time in heaven (or in hell), then existence there is “stasis”. No change, no thinking, no feelings, no awareness, nothing. Just frozen, eternally, forever. Does not sound “too good” at all.
 
This is an interesting question. I wouldn’t say the RC conception of heaven is “too good to be true” so much as “intellectually incoherent.” This doesn’t mean that it doesn’t exist or “isn’t true” but that we can’t really say too much about it. However, if you would like a sophistical argument:
  1. Everything that achieves its purpose can be called “happy”
  2. The purpose of human beings is life in heaven
    Therefore,
  3. Those human beings living in heaven will be happy
 
Pallas_Athene said:
If there is no time in heaven (or in hell), then existence there is “stasis”. No change, no thinking, no feelings, no awareness, nothing. Just frozen, eternally, forever. Does not sound “too good” at all.
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Why do you say because there is no time, then there is no feelings or awareness?

When you are engrossed in a hobby or activity that is enjoyable…time just flies by as if it didn’t exist…that, I believe is the way time in heaven will be. 👍
 
truetofaith said:
Why do you say because there is no time, then there is no feelings or awareness?

When you are engrossed in a hobby or activity that is enjoyable…time just flies by as if it didn’t exist…that, I believe is the way time in heaven will be. 👍
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Whatever you believe has no bearing on reality. But, of course you are welcome to believe anything whatever makes you feel happy. Nevertheless, it might be to your advantage to imagine that you are about to take a step, and time “freezes” in mid-step. Your foot will never reach the ground. Your whole action is frozen. There is no change at all. That would be a timeless existence.
 
Pallas_Athene said:
Whatever you believe has no bearing on reality. But, of course you are welcome to believe anything whatever makes you feel happy. Nevertheless, it might be to your advantage to imagine that you are about to take a step, and time “freezes” in mid-step. Your foot will never reach the ground. Your whole action is frozen. There is no change at all. That would be a timeless existence.
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I’ve never heard time in heaven described as you just did. “Frozen” in time…Revelation tells of a great multitude before the Throne of Heaven & things going on…no frozen, black & white photo.
 
It is an assumption that movement and activity requires our sense of collinear time.

Collinear time is an artifact of the entropy of material substance, specifically the material of our natural bodies.

But those in Heaven have spiritual bodies, therefore, life there is not limited by collinear time or the lack thereof.

ICXC NIKA
 
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