(September 15, 2019 at 5:07 pm)Darwinian Wrote: If there is a heaven and you make it there, what might you expect to be doing in a billion years and what relevance would your 80ish years of life on Earth have?
There is a wonderful book called The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Lovejoy which discusses, in part, different Christian views of heaven. Highly recommended. He summarizes two types: those that see heaven as an extension of this life, only better, and those which see heaven as radically different.
Dante's Paradiso is a good example of the radically different type, and it's in keeping with the official theology of the Catholic church -- allowing for certain poetic differences.
Dante's heaven is much in line with Neoplatonic thought. It is joining with the pure Good. But there is no time or space there, so the idea of how you spend your time is irrelevant.
