Question about heaven, please help

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Since we will have bodies in heaven doesn’t it make sense that there will be physical pleasures there as welll as spiritual ones? I’m just asking.
 
Gottle_of_Geer said:

What happens if someone is allergic to a flavour of ice cream favoured by someone else ?​

Someone’s idea of heaven may contradict someone else’s - so what happens then :confused: ?
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Oh I dont think it matters, I think heaven is just that Paradise. whatever makes us happy, And the main thing is being with God himself to see him Face To Face. That would be enough in itself. Remember we can never ever get true happiness in this world. True happiness is being with God. Can you imagine getting the answers to any question, ever and the right one to boot. And never ever being angry, sad, jealous, greedy, just a world of nothing but love and contentment. But unfortunately we must wait our turn. We still have work to do here on this earth. But thats okay too, this is a good place too. If we make it that way. Happiness is a state of mind. And as long as we know that God is looking out for us and loves us and will never leave us we will make it. Its just up to us how we want to take up our Crosses, because we are going to get them. My Dad always said what do you expect you are put in this world to suffer. Look at Jesus he was perfect and they Crucified him what do you think they are going to do to you. This world is just a test, to see who what we are going to choose Good or evil. Lets hope we choose more good than evil. God Bless everyone.
 
Gottle_of_Geer said:

What happens if someone is allergic to a flavour of ice cream favoured by someone else ?​

Someone’s idea of heaven may contradict someone else’s - so what happens then :confused: ?
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Since heaven is a perfect place, I have to believe that there will be no allergies there. So if a person was allergic to a flavour of ice cream in this life they will be able to eat it in heaven and they will be even happier.
 
Alverno said:
I’ll bet it is difficult to get ice cream in Hell. Who would deliver it? How would they get their tip? 😉
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**Going “below stairs” for a moment: **the most terrible punishments in Dante’s depiction of Hell are cold, not hot - the traitors occupy a series of concentric circles, the devil being at dead centre. The greater the treachery, the deeper they are sunk in the ice, until the worst are completely covered by it. Every detail has an allegorical meaning.​

Apocalypse of Peter:
Chap. 41 f.

And sighing I wept and said: Woe unto men, woe unto sinners! why were they born? And the angel answered and said unto me: Why dost thou lament? [3943]Art thou more pitiful than the Lord God who is blessed forever, who established judgment and sent forth every man to choose good and evil in his own will and do what pleases him? Then I lamented again very greatly, and he said to me: Dost thou lament when as yet thou hast not seen greater punishments? Follow me and thou 42. And I looked to the south in the west and I saw there a [3944] restless worm and in that place there was gnashing of teeth: moreover the worms were one cubit long, and had two heads, and there I saw men and women in cold and gnashing of teeth. And I asked and said, Sir, who are these in this place? And he said to me: These are they who say that Christ did not rise from the dead and that this flesh will not rise again. And I asked and said: Sir, is there no fire nor heat in this place? And he said to me: In this place there is nothing else but cold and snow: [3945]and again he said to me: Even if the sun should rise upon them, they do not become warm on account of the superabundant cold of that place and the snow.

But hearing these things I stretched out my hands and wept, and sighing again, I said: It were better for us if we had not been born, [3946] all of us who are sinners.
Michel Tardieu has shown that there is a probable influence of inter-testamentary apocalyptic writings in these descriptions (Apocalypse of Peter and Paul). Hell is firstly the residence of Ahriman, the demons, and the druzes. All atmospheric calamities are associated with it: snow, cold, hail, rain, burning heat, and so forth.
 
Marsha_Adams said:
Since we will have bodies in heaven doesn’t it make sense that there will be physical pleasures there as welll as spiritual ones? I’m just asking.
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**There won’t be marriage (or giving in marriage, for the matter of that), so presumably sexual pleasures are “out”. And if there is no sex - why should there be food 🙂 ? **​

**Someone said something about dimensions - maybe that’s a clue; maybe, the more developed the Blessed are on earth, the more “dimensions” of pleasure they are able to enjoy/endure in heaven: a bit as some realities in this world are two-dimensional, while others are three-dimensional. **
**BTW - is heaven a place ? If so, what does it mean to say so ? In both the Bible & in Judaism, Maqom (=Place) is a way of referring to God. **

This thread is leading in all sorts of surprising directions - kudos to the first poster 😃
 
Gottle_of_Geer said:

What happens if someone is allergic to a flavour of ice cream favoured by someone else ?​

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I suffer from allergies … There is no suffering in heaven … therefore no one will be allergic to a flavor of ice cream favored by someone else.

Boy would my college logic professor be proud of me 🙂 🙂
 
Hey, since this thread has addressed the possibility of ice cream, cats, friends, sex, and heaven knows what else being in heaven, how many of you are going to take up golf?

After all the golfing in heaven jokes are too numerous to count.

My favorite:

Jesus, St. Peter, and St. Paul have hit their tee shots on a long and difficult par 4 at Heavenly Delight Golf and Country Club. All are about 300 yards, dead center in the fairway. The fourth guy hits and the ball goes screaming into the woods, ricochets off a tree into a pond where it bounces high off of a turtle’s back and is caught in mid air by and eagle who grabs it in his beak, flys high over the green, drops the ball where it promply lands on the green and rolls into the cup for a hole in one. Jesus turns to the other two, smiles and shakes his head, and says “I love the guy, but I hate playing with Dad”. 🙂 🙂
 
joeybaggz said:
There is ice cream in Hell … ever heard of “Rocky Road” ?
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I would figure that Hell is completely about suffering.
So why would ice cream be there that is not suffering
to me that is just a pleasure and I don’t see that being
there either.

GRACE
 
SenorSalsa said:
to me, this is the same as people who say they will not be happy in heaven without thier pets.

Too bad, your pets wont be there. And if you think the glory of God and all of his Angels, Saints, the Blessed Mother, et al, is not infinately better than a dog or some chocolate chip cookie dough, i would say you need to rethink your faith
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How can you be so sure?? With God, everything is possible. Some of our loyal companions are sure to be bounding through the heavenly fields and curled up on laps while we sit in Jesus’ presence! Afterall, even the Bible says the lion will lie down with the lamb. If there are lions and lambs in heaven, why not cats and dogs??
 
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