What Is Heaven Like?

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What do you think Heaven is like? Is it similar to Dante’s Paradise? Or is it similar to the Heaven in “What Dreams May Come”? Or is it like a painting you have seen? I’d like to see what others think of what Heaven is like to them.
 
“What Dreams May Come” was an awesome movie. But I think heaven will be way better.
 
I’ve been looking for images or pictures of what others perceive Heaven to be like. We all want to go to Heaven but yet hardly anybody gives a good description of what they would like it to be like. Does anybody know whether any painter has tried to paint Dante’s Paradise? Has any other writer’s tried to describe Heaven? Or painters try to paint Heaven? I would like to see what others think Heaven would be like. It gives one something to look forward to. So if you know of some writer or painter who tries to portray Heaven in their works or if you would like to describe what you think Heaven would be like, please do.
 
Just as a blind man is unable to form any idea about colors, or a deaf person to fathom what it means to hear sounds… so the body cannot comprehend the delights of the soul… For we live in a material world, and the only kind of pleasure we can understand is that experienced through our body. But the joys of the spirit are everlasting and ceaseless. There is no resemblance of any kind between the enjoyments of the soul and those of the body.
–The twelfth-century philosopher-rabbi, Maimonides
 
Claire_from_DE said:
“What Dreams May Come” was an awesome movie. But I think heaven will be way better.
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I agree too. It was one of the first movies that tackled the afterlife and actually painted an interesting picture of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. And I also agree that the real Heaven will be far greater. Another image that comes to mind is the model of Rivendell in Lord of the Rings. It was quite a breathtaking image.
 
Robert_Sock said:
Just as a blind man is unable to form any idea about colors, or a deaf person to fathom what it means to hear sounds… so the body cannot comprehend the delights of the soul… For we live in a material world, and the only kind of pleasure we can understand is that experienced through our body. But the joys of the spirit are everlasting and ceaseless. There is no resemblance of any kind between the enjoyments of the soul and those of the body.
–The twelfth-century philosopher-rabbi, Maimonides
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This statement is so true. I’m sure nobody will ever write words or paint a picture that will even come close to the splendour that we will enjoy in Heaven. It is nice to dream, to yearn, to hope for a peaceful, loving place where, after all the pains of this world, we can go and be free
 
Robert_Sock said:
Just as a blind man is unable to form any idea about colors, or a deaf person to fathom what it means to hear sounds… so the body cannot comprehend the delights of the soul… For we live in a material world, and the only kind of pleasure we can understand is that experienced through our body. But the joys of the spirit are everlasting and ceaseless. There is no resemblance of any kind between the enjoyments of the soul and those of the body.
–The twelfth-century philosopher-rabbi, Maimonides
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Well said, Maimonides. As Christians we could not have said it better.
 
We did say it just as well as Mammonaides, though: St. Paul, in one of his epistles, said, “Eye has not seen, nor ear has heard, nor has it occurred in the mind of man, what God has prepared for those who love HIm.”
 
Heaven is much better than Dante’s Heaven.

And hell is much worse than Dante’s hell.

P.S. I love Dante.
 
odile53 said:
We did say it just as well as Mammonaides, though: St. Paul, in one of his epistles, said, “Eye has not seen, nor ear has heard, nor has it occurred in the mind of man, what God has prepared for those who love HIm.”
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Thumbs up!👍
 
ThePoorInSpirit said:
I agree too. It was one of the first movies that tackled the afterlife and actually painted an interesting picture of Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory. And I also agree that the real Heaven will be far greater. Another image that comes to mind is the model of Rivendell in Lord of the Rings. It was quite a breathtaking image.
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I believe that the best images of Heaven are those that God created Himself, in outer space. St. Paul writes that in Heaven, we will shine “like the stars in the heavens.” Jesus says in Rev. 2 that when we die, we will receive “the bright morning star.” The heavens are vast, an image of boundless eternity, and inexpressibly beautiful. There also are endless spiritual symbols and meanings entwined together within it.

Hubble shines us a little light on Heaven.
 
ThePoorInSpirit said:
What do you think Heaven is like? Is it similar to Dante’s Paradise? Or is it similar to the Heaven in “What Dreams May Come”? Or is it like a painting you have seen? I’d like to see what others think of what Heaven is like to them.
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How about 1 Cor 2:9 🙂

“What no eye has seen, nor ear heard,** nor the heart of man conceived**, what God has prepared for those who love him”
 
Heaven is to be bathed in an endless sea of love so powerful and profound and deep that a person could want for nothing else.
And that love is God.
 
fhansen said:
Heaven is to be bathed in an endless sea of love so powerful and profound and deep that a person could want for nothing else.
And that love is God.
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Well said. Heaven is the perfect enjoyment of being in God’s presence, bathed in His Light of beauty, truth, love and life.
 
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