(August 30, 2018 at 10:18 am)Catholic_Lady Wrote:(August 30, 2018 at 4:11 am)IWNKYAAIMI Wrote: Yes I wouldn't mind you doing that actually. I gather that you think heaven is more a state of mind rather than an actual existence (have I understood you correctly?) If so, do you think that all your memories and experiences are wiped clean? Do you enter this heaven with all the knowledge that you possess now? I ask this because I often think about people who have endured terrible lives, are they 'fixed' magically in your heaven?
Let's take someone who has developed dementia in later life as an example, what would be your take on their situation, or maybe a severely disabled person who has endured an uphill struggle all their life? Is their heavenly state of mind going to be on a par with yours?
No, it is an actual existance. What I said is that it is a state of being rather than a physical place.
Yes, we still enter with all the knowledge, memories, and experiences we have had in this life.
People who have lived terrible lives still enter the afterlife with the memory of their terrible lives. But the love of God (if they choose to accept it) will overwhelm them with complete fulfillment and complete joy. So it isn't that they won't remember their painful memories. But that it will no longer matter or be relevant. The person is now existing in complete joy and complete love. It will "cure" any pain or trauma they feel from their past life.
As for people with illnesses/disabilities, either physical or mental.... well, since only our souls go to the afterlife and not our bodies or our brains, any disease, illness, disability, etc, will no longer apply. The person with dementia, bi polar disorder, mental retardation, etc, will be able to experience existance clearly from that point on, as though they no longer have those diseases.
(Disclaimer: this is all my belief/opinion)
Once again, catholic doctrine states that you are wrong.
https://www.catholic.com/tract/resurrection-of-the-body
