Let's Try to Imagine What Heaven is Like

[ChemEngrMBA]

I have never seen a concerted effort anywhere for interested individuals to propose what heaven is actually like.
We've had many reports of individuals who were clinically dead, saw heaven, and returned to describe it vaguely. 

I want to start by saying I think our departed loved ones and dearest friends can see and hear us in real time.

This gives them the opportunity to keep busy watching and sharing their thoughts with each other and our Heavenly Father.

Just as life down here is an ongoing learning experience, I'm pretty sure life up there is as well.

I say that communication there is highly advanced compared to here on earth.  Words passing through air aren't necessary, the same as cell phone communications here on earth are ubiquitous, crossing trillions of paths without interference or loss of clarity, so too are heavenly communications between everyone.

Talk to your family.  Don't pray to them.  Talk to them and ask them to pray to their Heavenly Father, very close by, to help everyone around you in need, and to help you do more good for more people.  How pleasing that must be to all the souls up there, being thought of and recognized daily.  What if their prayers can make small but important differences in your life?  When coincidences start adding up, you're on to something.  Don't stop.

[Bigun]

I have never seen a concerted effort anywhere for interested individuals to propose what heaven is actually like.
We've had many reports of individuals who were clinically dead, saw heaven, and returned to describe it vaguely. 

I want to start by saying I think our departed loved ones and dearest friends can see and hear us in real time.

This gives them the opportunity to keep busy watching and sharing their thoughts with each other and our Heavenly Father.

Just as life down here is an ongoing learning experience, I'm pretty sure life up there is as well.

I say that communication there is highly advanced compared to here on earth.  Words passing through air aren't necessary, the same as cell phone communications here on earth are ubiquitous, crossing trillions of paths without interference or loss of clarity, so too are heavenly communications between everyone.

Talk to your family.  Don't pray to them.  Talk to them and ask them to pray to their Heavenly Father, very close by, to help everyone around you in need, and to help you do more good for more people.  How pleasing that must be to all the souls up there, being thought of and recognized daily.  What if their prayers can make small but important differences in your life?  When coincidences start adding up, you're on to something.  Don't stop.

 

[ChemEngrMBA]

How will each of us look in paradise?  I suggest that we may have some choice in our appearance as to age and condition.  Imagine yourself as the best you ever looked and felt, and improve on that to your desired extent, while maintaining your original, recognizable appearance.

My daily practice now is to talk to family and friends in paradise, pray for them and ask them to pray for me.  Yesterday, I said "Ask the Lord to give me a sign and show me you're all at work praying for me."  He delivered in an amazing, unexpected way.

I can't wait for the next big surprise.

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[ChemEngrMBA]

My book discusses several examples of profound fortuitous interdependencies which surround every living human on earth.
 Among many things which never cease to amaze me are the variations of beautiful scenery everywhere.  There are breathtaking sunrises, sunsets, ocean views, mountain views, animal life, flowers, trees homes, children, women, canyons....
There is an almost unlimited number of beautiful sights to behold, courtesy of our eyesight which is only possible because of invisible air and water, the vitreous humor inside our eyes and corneas and the biochemistry involved in converting photons of light striking our corneas, where they are converted into electrical impulses which travel along our optic nerves to our brains where they are resolved to perfection for our information and enjoyment.

I suggest with utmost conviction that the scenery in paradise will be even more amazing, more breathtaking.  Why wouldn't it?

[ChemEngrMBA]

Learning is our lifetime experience. 
Learning is rewarding in so many ways.  It can provide
loads of entertainment, teach you how to fix stuff, how to have
fun, how to exercise and be more healthy, how to help others
and have fun in the process.  Do you think learning stops in paradise?

Most certainly it will not.  It must surely accelerate and improve markedly.
How, nobody here can imagine. It would be like trying to describe eyesight
to a person born blind.

I am on the "Advisory Committee."  I enjoy giving advice.  You'd best listen up!

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[ChemEngrMBA]

Not one person has anything to add, any fantasmagoric inkling of what awaits all of us?
You're not trying hard enough.  Suppose, as one gentleman said to me, "Nothing is coincidental."
Wonderful surprises, large and small, are our rewards, and difficulties are our training grounds to get us prepared, to test us.
Revelations tells us that our rewards in Heaven will be commensurate with our deeds down on earth, so do your best every day.
Somebody is watching - like maybe everybody up there.

[berdie]

How will each of us look in paradise?  I suggest that we may have some choice in our appearance as to age and condition.  Imagine yourself as the best you ever looked and felt, and improve on that to your desired extent, while maintaining your original, recognizable appearance.

My daily practice now is to talk to family and friends in paradise, pray for them and ask them to pray for me.  Yesterday, I said "Ask the Lord to give me a sign and show me you're all at work praying for me."  He delivered in an amazing, unexpected way.

I can't wait for the next big surprise.

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I don't think we'll have physical form.  Just total peace.

I also think there is a possibility of reincarnation after a period of peace. We'll get a chance to go back and make things right.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Many people who have come back from near death experiences tell their stories of meeting deceased family and speaking to them.  To me that sounds both beautiful and reasonable.
Nobody ever talked to a reincarnated animal.  Animals have no place in heaven.

[Bigun]

I have never seen a concerted effort anywhere for interested individuals to propose what heaven is actually like.
We've had many reports of individuals who were clinically dead, saw heaven, and returned to describe it vaguely. 

I want to start by saying I think our departed loved ones and dearest friends can see and hear us in real time.

This gives them the opportunity to keep busy watching and sharing their thoughts with each other and our Heavenly Father.

Just as life down here is an ongoing learning experience, I'm pretty sure life up there is as well.

I say that communication there is highly advanced compared to here on earth.  Words passing through air aren't necessary, the same as cell phone communications here on earth are ubiquitous, crossing trillions of paths without interference or loss of clarity, so too are heavenly communications between everyone.

Talk to your family.  Don't pray to them.  Talk to them and ask them to pray to their Heavenly Father, very close by, to help everyone around you in need, and to help you do more good for more people.  How pleasing that must be to all the souls up there, being thought of and recognized daily.  What if their prayers can make small but important differences in your life?  When coincidences start adding up, you're on to something.  Don't stop.

Scripture tells us that that Heaven is beyond our imagination and I believe that's true.

[jmyrlefuller]

Some things in (after)life, I have no interest in knowing until I get there.

[GtHawk]

The only thing I know about Heaven is that West Virginia is almost it. Other than that I have a wait and see attitude, that I hope I learn about it and not that destination south of it.

[libertybele]

I hope I am worthy of Heaven and if so, it will be more beautiful than any place on earth and people will know happiness like never before and they will be absolutely pain free and without worries or any burdens.  Life's questions will be answered.

[mystery-ak]

I hope I am worthy of Heaven and if so, it will be more beautiful than any place on earth and people will know happiness like never before and they will be absolutely pain free and without worries or any burdens.  Life's questions will be answered.

I will probably end up in Purgatory to answer for all my sins....I will need people here on earth to pray for my soul....I must admit I am worried about this...

[libertybele]

I Can Only Imagine .... (very appropriate)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-Y1y_aFL_s

I can only imagine
What it will be like
When I walk by Your side
I can only imagine
What my eyes would see
When Your face is before me
I can only imagine
Yeah
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for You Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in Your presence
Or to my knees, will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
When that day comes
And I find myself
Standing in the Son
I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship You
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in your presence
Or to my knees will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
Surrounded by Your glory
What will my heart feel?
Will I dance for you Jesus
Or in awe of You be still?
Will I stand in your presence
Or to my knees, will I fall?
Will I sing hallelujah?
Will I be able to speak at all?
I can only imagine, yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine, yeah-yeah
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
I can only imagine
When all I will do
Is forever, forever worship You
I can only imagine

[libertybele]

@mystery-ak  Well, I'm not sure of Purgatory because ....

In The Apostle's Creed ....  (He) is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.

So .... if I am understanding this prayer correctly - no one has been judged yet.


There is also a group of Catholics; SSPX (Society of St. Pius X) who didn't join any of the modern Catholic movements.  I listened to a couple of the sermons and they claim only a very small percentage of Catholics actually make it into Heaven, including priests, bishops and cardinals. 

If you get a chance browse their forum; it is pretty interesting.  We have an SSPX Church about a half hour away -- if I could sit and stand for any length of time, I'd attend.  IIRC they still say the mass in Latin.

https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/?PHPSESSID=89qothdu4bhfh3glgl4aj228e6

[mystery-ak]

@mystery-ak  Well, I'm not sure of Purgatory because ....

In The Apostle's Creed ....  (He) is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.

So .... if I am understanding this prayer correctly - no one has been judged yet.


There is also a group of Catholics; SSPX (Society of St. Pius X) who didn't join any of the modern Catholic movements.  I listened to a couple of the sermons and they claim only a very small percentage of Catholics actually make it into Heaven, including priests, bishops and cardinals. 

If you get a chance browse their forum; it is pretty interesting.  We have an SSPX Church about a half hour away -- if I could sit and stand for any length of time, I'd attend.  IIRC they still say the mass in Latin.

https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/?PHPSESSID=89qothdu4bhfh3glgl4aj228e6

I love the Latin Mass...I have the very old missal both latin/english that my dad bought my mom..it turned out to be his last Christmas....anyways..I know purgatory isn't mentioned in the bible but the early Christians believed it to be so...I want to know why...and to your point Jesus on the cross promised the thief next to him on the cross that *today you will be with me in heaven* no mention of purgatory...

[libertybele]

I love the Latin Mass...I have the very old missal both latin/english that my dad bought my mom..it turned out to be his last Christmas....anyways..I know purgatory isn't mentioned in the bible but the early Christians believed it to be so...I want to know why...and to your point Jesus on the cross promised the thief next to him on the cross that *today you will be with me in heaven* no mention of purgatory...

Yes the Mass in Latin is beautiful, though it's been so long since I've recited or heard the Mass in Latin I'd surely stumble through it.

In both the Nincene Creed (which I prefer) and Apostles Creed it mentions He will judge both the living and the dead; therefore I don't believe there is a Purgatory because we won't be judged until He comes again.

Many people also believe that those who have gone before us are in Heaven waiting -- again because of these prayers, I don't think so. 

However, I may be totally misinterpreting what is stated.

[Bigun]

@mystery-ak  Well, I'm not sure of Purgatory because ....

In The Apostle's Creed ....  (He) is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.

So .... if I am understanding this prayer correctly - no one has been judged yet.


There is also a group of Catholics; SSPX (Society of St. Pius X) who didn't join any of the modern Catholic movements.  I listened to a couple of the sermons and they claim only a very small percentage of Catholics actually make it into Heaven, including priests, bishops and cardinals. 

If you get a chance browse their forum; it is pretty interesting.  We have an SSPX Church about a half hour away -- if I could sit and stand for any length of time, I'd attend.  IIRC they still say the mass in Latin.

https://www.cathinfo.com/sspx-resistance-news/?PHPSESSID=89qothdu4bhfh3glgl4aj228e6

I have resisted posting very much to this thread because I saw what such discussions led to at other sites, I have participated in previously but will post a Cliff Notes version here tonight.

Everyone who has ever lived or ever will live on this planet (the two thirds who fought with Michael) is an eternal being who were with God before the Earth was formed.

There was a war in Heaven (Rev. 12, 4-7). Satan proclaimed that he could save every soul but would have had to take away our agency in order to accomplish this. God rejected this idea, Satan rebelled, and the war began. Michael and all of us (two thirds of the hosts of Heaven) fought on the side of Michael and prevailed. God expelled Satan and the one third who had fought with him (they are still eternal beings but can never receive a physical body and thus can progress no further.).

Everyone who has ever lived on this planet chose to come to Earth, recieve a physical body, and be tested in our mortal lives.

When we experience physical death (necessary for us to be able to advance) don't go anywhere. Our Souls simply leave our bodies step into another realm where we continue to learn and progress. We remain in this state until the day we are ALL resurrected and face what comes after that.

[ChemEngrMBA]

Didn't Jesus say to the thief on the cross next to Him, "Verily I say unto you today shalt thou be with me in paradise."

Yes, yes he did.  Speak to your family and friends in paradise and pray for their comfort and joy.  Ask each of them to pray for your strength and success here on earth to make all your family and friends proud and be pleasing to the King.  May you have many such daily conversations and prayers.
 They're watching.

[Gefn]

All dogs go to heaven
If you don't believe me, there is an episode from the old Twilight Zone (original, not one of the three remakes) called "The Hunt" where all dogs go to heaven.



Rod Sterling aside, yes, I do believe our animals are in heaven but at the Rainbow Bridge. It's a nice belief, can't prove it one way or the other but it is very comforting.