Book of Questions #17

[Ebony AKA AngieJ]

> >>>>>>>>>>>>
> Kimberly wrote:
>   I believe in God, and in an afterlife, but sometimes
> in my puny little human mind I find the idea of eternity in Heaven
> even to be tiring.  I guess if there are lots of volleyball games 
and
> cookouts and the occasional float trip it'll be nice, but they'll 
have
> to supply me with a nice hammock so I can rest up if we're going to 
be
> at it forever ;)
> <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<

SML wrote: 
> Good point!  What DO people do all the time in the standard 
Christian heaven?  Drift around on clouds?  If there really was a 
heaven, I would think that the souls who lived there would each be in 
their own *personal* heaven, doing whatever they loved.  Perhaps 
they'd be guardian angels, or just be reunited with their loved ones 
(but again, what are they gonna do for ETERNITY!).
> 

Hmmm... I know this started out as the 1000-year question.  My answer 
is "no way".  Give me my threescore and ten, and then some besides... 
but I do not want to live forever on this earth as it is now.

One of the best treatises I've EVER read on the Christian view of the 
afterlife is Joni Eareckson Tada's *Heaven*.  I bought it the summer 
my father died... and it helped me immensely.  Highly recommended.

--Ebony