Is this Heaven?
Say you were to die. Say also that the Christians were correct, and when you die you will either go to Heaven or Hell for all Eternity. Eternity is a long, long time. Given all of this, let's think about what this means...
Say that you end up in Heaven. You are shocked, because you don't believe that you lead the Christan life, but here you are, in Christian Heaven. (or better still, you were a Christian, did all of the Christian things, and now you are exactly where you thought you should be!) You are experiencing all of the greatest joys (non-sexual) that you can imagine. You are perfectly happy and content. You experience True Bless every waking moment that you are in Heaven. Heaven is so magnificent that my words pale in comparison to its greatness!
This goes on for a million years or more, which is less than a blink of the eye to Eternity.
Say you wake up in Heaven one day, after these millions of years have past, and Satan is there next to your glorious bed. He tells you that you have actually been in Hell for all of this time and now your suffering can begin. Now that you have had a million years of True Peace, your suffering will seem so much worse - you will know what you are missing while you are suffering in Hell. This is far worse than just starting your suffering as soon as you arrived, according to Him.
So, the question is: Could you ever really know that you were in Heaven?
The Edward
2 comments:
I think we just slip into another dimension with ghostly visitation rights to this dimension. Honestly... no one knows what happens when you die and where "you" go, so all the theories (pretty and otherwise) that people believe in to make themselves feel good or to hold other people accountable for their behavior (that is deemed acceptable or unacceptable by someone's religion) is just that, something basically out of the realm of our limited senses and perceptions and can't be proved or disproved. There's not even enough to go on to make a valid hypothesis. Yes, I know doctors are doing deathbed studies, but those pretty flashes of white lights and relatives that have already passed on could also be the misfiring of dying brain cells/neurons. And is there really something to us that "continues on"? Something that "floats right out of our physical 3-D body and into the 4th dimension? Could also be just a thought someone came up with to make them feel better about being born to ultimately decay. Maybe we're here to just be fertilizer when it's time for us to go. You, know, the circle of life thing. 'Course all those people in coffins, embalmed, entombed, mummified, and cryogenicallhy frozen won't be participating. They think they will rise up whole and renewed. I'm rambling, up too early to day and now VERY tired!!
No, you couldn't. Which is why you should always assume you are already in hell and just be a dick. Its easier that way.
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