What are you going to do forever?
So I'm sure you've seen those signs in front of churches: "How will you spend eternity?"
So I'd like to turn that question around to the religious people out there. How will you spend eternity, or better yet "What will you do forever?"
Have you ever really thought about it? Do you really understand how long that will be?
What are you going to do for all that time? At what point will you get so bored that you want to kill yourself (but you're already dead, so how will that work?).
I'm completely serious here. The average person lives about 80 years give or take. You're basically an adult for about 60 of those years. I'm sure you have already been bored in your life at one time or another as it is.
Imagine 100 years, just try. Now 1,000. That might be OK; there would be a lot you could learn during that time. Of course, if you don't enjoy learning new things, you could be in trouble. How about 10,000 years? How about 1,000,000. Now take that times 1,000 and you get 1 billion. 1 billion years. I don't think most people have the capacity to really understand how long 10,000 years is, let alone 1,000,000,000.
You aren't going to be able to do anything "exciting" or "dangerous". Again, you're already dead so you can't take any changes because nothing bad could happen to you.
How about sex. It seems that man Christian based churches think that there won't be any sex in heaven, especially since sex is a sin. Perhaps you would get to have sex with your spouse if you were married before you died though. What if you were married and your spouse died and then you re-married (allowed by many religions). Do you get to have sex with both spouses in heaven? At the same time? Man it's going to suck if you're single when you die if this is the case. If a woman has had breast implants does she get to keep them or does she revert back to the original size? How about breast reductions?
So really, what are you going to do forever?
1 Comments:
These questions have been around for some time in various forms. I'm with you though, I want to have sex in heaven. It doesn't appear from the Scriptures that it's going to be the case (Matthew 22:23-33). Personally, I think C.S. Lewis (Author of the Chronicles of Narnia) said it best when he wrote this on the topic:
"The letter and spirit of Scripture, and of all Christianity, forbid us to suppose that life in the New Creation will be a sexual life; and this reduces our imagination to the withering alternative either of bodies which are hardly recognizable as human bodies at all or else of a perpetual fast. As regards the fast, I think our present outlook might be like that of a small boy who, on being told that the sexual act was the highest bodily pleasure, should immediately ask whether you ate chocolates at the same time. On receiving the answer no, he might regard absence of chocolates as the chief characteristic of sexuality. In vain would you tell him that the reason why lovers in their carnal raptures don't bother about chocolates is that they have something better to think of. The boy knows chocolate: he does not know the positive thing that excludes it. We are in the same position. We know the sexual life; we do not know, except in glimpses, the other thing which, in Heaven, will leave no room for it."
With regards to what is there to do? I imagine being able to explore the fullness of the universe without the same limitations of the laws of physics facing us now. Stuff like walking through walls (matter is mostly space anyway right?), flying, etc... It's definitely not going to be sitting on a cloud playing a harp. Not to mention being able to experience God in his fullness. Imagine the most perfect and powerful being, and you haven't even begun to scratch the surface. Imagine the most good, just, and merciful being, and you haven't even begun to scratch the surface. We will learn the mysteries of the universe, the mysteries of God, the stories of each other. We will feast, we will drink wine, we will dance. There will be no end to the adventure, and excitement. There will not be fear of death, no, but there won't be an end to wonder either.
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