tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post760624623315370226..comments2023-10-08T06:21:52.923-07:00Comments on Amy Deardon: HeavenAmy Deardonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01360116339457651031noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-8714656738387335742010-11-11T10:00:32.616-08:002010-11-11T10:00:32.616-08:00If I take all the best days of my life, all my bes...If I take all the best days of my life, all my best experiences, all the greatest and most intense pleasures, then imagine that God has planned Heaven to be a place immensely more satisfying than Earth, I can live with assurance of utter contentment in Heaven.<br /><br />Fully knowing the Lord—His life and light and amazing love—will be enough. <br /><br />I really like what you did with this, Amy. :DAnne Lang Bundyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02998809463390846323noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-941926013230388332010-11-10T12:28:38.594-08:002010-11-10T12:28:38.594-08:00Found the simpsons' heaven video:
http://www....Found the simpsons' heaven video:<br /><br />http://www.fallibleblogma.com/index.php/video-simpsons-heaven/Jane Lebakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851954297667846546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-51575603588924920102010-11-10T12:04:18.799-08:002010-11-10T12:04:18.799-08:00I'm not going to start a Purgatory discussion ...I'm not going to start a Purgatory discussion in the comments and you know I have no desire to convert anyone else to belief in Purgatory. I'll email something to you later on after I've collected children from the bus. :-) <br /><br />Elijah and Enoch were taken bodily into Heaven. Moses' body was collected by Michael and taken into Heaven (Jude) and Jesus, of course, is in Heaven with his body. That makes four people at a minimum who are embodied in Heaven right now, before the final judgment. So there's got to be some kind of physical aspect to paradise. (Were you around on my weblog for the discussion of whether there are toilets in Heaven? LOL -- man, that was....wild.)<br /><br />I'll see if I can find the Simpsons video online. That was wild too.Jane Lebakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851954297667846546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-68875130166290612762010-11-10T09:27:57.981-08:002010-11-10T09:27:57.981-08:00Hi Kat, I like your idea of "fellowship"...Hi Kat, I like your idea of "fellowship" as worship. The Bible talks often about "knowing" his people, with an extremely intimate connotation for this verb. We can't imagine what Heaven is like (eye has not seen, nor ear heard...) but to me it makes sense that it should be so and that we cannot understand. These other Heavens described in other belief systems, that describe earthly realities (or in Mormonism's case a self-ambitious reality that is earthly), seem that they MUST be missing the point. God is way beyond what we, as humans, understand.Amy Deardonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01360116339457651031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-69357750350496298342010-11-10T09:23:06.884-08:002010-11-10T09:23:06.884-08:00Philangelus, missed the Simpsons' explication,...Philangelus, missed the Simpsons' explication, sorry. (I only saw one episode where Bart was repainting the lines of a parking lot six inches closer together -- very fun). The body is absolutely intrinsic to the Christian heaven, simply that in the Christian descriptions of heaven, not that much is talked about what the bodies do. Paul talked about being "naked" if he were to be there in soul and not flesh -- this gets into questions about what happens to those who die in the faith before the second coming, and I'm not going there, at least not today.<br /><br />I would appreciate some education on Catholic Purgatory? What I know comes from reading sources; I am not, nor have ever been, a Catholic :-)Amy Deardonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01360116339457651031noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-45615295332215395332010-11-10T08:31:52.795-08:002010-11-10T08:31:52.795-08:00Since we're going to have a bodily resurrectio...Since we're going to have a bodily resurrection, it makes sense that Heaven would have a physical aspect. I can't imagine God would plan out Heaven and forget to, say, feed us for all eternity.<br /><br />Have you seen the Simpsons comparison of Protestant Heaven and Catholic Heaven. ;-) Not that theology comes from the Simpsons, but the difference between Protestant cerebralism and Catholic mind-body spirituality was very funny.<br /><br />BTW, that's not the Catholic doctrine of Purgatory.Jane Lebakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00851954297667846546noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-294580011480550687.post-30006379170347549432010-11-10T05:55:35.702-08:002010-11-10T05:55:35.702-08:00IMHO, the vagueness may be because Heaven will fee...IMHO, the vagueness may be because Heaven will feel different for each of us. Not so much getting our earthly desires, but we are all individuals. I think people get a little nervous about Heaven, thinking we're all going to be made the same, like a bunch of drones. But God made us all different for a reason--why would He suddenly change that?<br /><br />Also, the idea of "worshiping" God non-stop brings to mind a human king strutting around with arrogance, puffed up over his subjects lowering themselves before him. I think it's very different with God. I believe "worship" is more akin to fellowship, in the sense that it will be us showing God our love for Him and receiving His love in a more direct way than we do here on earth. We'll finally get to see God for who He truly is, and we will want our focus to be on Him.<br /><br />Cool post, Amy. I love how you approach things so scientifically :).Kat Heckenbachhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17690721679155795038noreply@blogger.com