What do you expect in Heaven?

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I’ve often thought about this. What the biblical Heaven seems to imply (based upon scant references) and what I’d actually like to ‘wake up to’ when I die.

I was reading around on blogs the other day and ran into this:
Always longing to find “home”, as I believe all people do, some of these Christian folk will hope that the final promise of Christianity- that of “heaven”- will be a realization and fulfillment of that longing.
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The “heaven” they really want isn’t a sunny, sandy “New Jerusalem” with the Big Jehovah and choirs of angels; it is a green land of mountains, forests, and fields and blue rivers and oceans, full of game and fish and longhouses and roundhouses, villages with warm hearth-fires and sweet mead, wherein walk beautiful women and strong men, safe, happy, together with their own children and families. It isn’t full of camels and ancient Iranian Magi draped in silk; it is full of horses and deer, of wolves and ravens and mystics draped in hide and fur.
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Heaven is not a return to the paradise of another people, or to another people’s myth of a great future; it is a return to our own origins. And in the Underworld of our Ancestors, in the Godly Realms of our Ancestors- sacred and powerful and totally unrelated to the “hell” of the Christians- that sort of completion awaits us. It is a long-sought homecoming, a long-awaited rest among our true kin.
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While a bit on the anti-Christian side (it IS from a heathen blog), I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything he says as regards to an afterlife.

When you think of Heaven, what is it like?

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NoWings said:
I’ve often thought about this. What the biblical Heaven seems to imply (based upon scant references) and what I’d actually like to ‘wake up to’ when I die.

I was reading around on blogs the other day and ran into this:

While a bit on the anti-Christian side (it IS from a heathen blog), I find myself agreeing with pretty much everything he says as regards to an afterlife.

When you think of Heaven, what is it like?

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I see lots of angel food cake. 🙂
 
Simply stated, I expect the absolute fulfillment of the purpose of my creation.
 
To be fully in the presence of God. The Beatific Vision.
 
The full, realistic, wholesome and perfect existence of God in all of his unfathomable glory.
 
I was discussing this in class. Me and my friendd where basically tag-team preaching. And one kid asked, “What is there to even do in heaven? Play tennis on the golden court?:confused:” -lol.
I responded, “Imagine all the entertainment you have here on earth. Disney Land, Six Flags, Hawaii. What makes you think God’s kingdom will be lesser than these? I’m sure these things seem small compared to what God has in store for us. He probably looks at these things and think, 'wow, how small.”
 
I kind of hope that the Muslims got that 70 virgins thing correct. 😃
 
I don’t think Heaven will resemble anything like what we have here on earth. I think our feeble human understanding can’t really fathom it, so we fashion it to suit our human pursuits. All sin flows from human desire. In heaven, we will be made whole, reconciled fully to God. Therefore, Heaven means that all desire will be removed completely and utterly. God will inhabit us completely.
 
pit bulls. lots and lots of cute cuddley pitbulls. i do love my dogs!😃
 
Our minds can’t grasp what heaven will be.

I HOPE that I will be with my family for eternity. Our beloved animals, His creatures too, will be there all for His glory. My mother, whose body was cancer ridden, will smile again in the warmth of His love. My children will be there, and will eagerly await their sisters.

What a glorious Jubilee!
 
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in heaven there is no spam :rolleyes:
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But in heaven there is clearly inspiration and that rejoinder no doubt has God’s signature on it!:cool:

I think that purgatory and heaven are more or less the same state, but that the soul progresses as it is tested and learns from tests. I only know that it is likely nothing like I imagine it to be.

Here is what Mark Twain said: “It would be a wonderful experience to stand there in those enchanted surroundings and hear Shakespeare and Milton and Bunyan read from their noble works. And it might be that they would like to hear me read some of my things. No, it could never be; they would not care for me. They would not know me, they would not understand me, and they would say they had an engagement. But if I could only be there, and walk about and look, and listen, I should be satisfied and not make a noise. My life is fading to its close, and someday I shall know.”

He also said: “Let us swear while we may, for in Heaven it will not be allowed.”
 
I think St Basil the Great says it best in his Homily on Psalm 1.

“For truly blessed is the goodness that all things await and all things desire: an unchangeable nature, noble dignity, peaceful existence, a happy way of life in which there is neither change nor alteration…”
 
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