RE: wouldn't heaven feel kinda fake?
November 4, 2013 at 2:09 pm
(This post was last modified: November 4, 2013 at 3:19 pm by Mister Agenda.)
(November 4, 2013 at 1:59 pm)John V Wrote:(November 4, 2013 at 1:48 pm)Mister Agenda Wrote: How can work be fruitful if it's unnecessary? God can do anything that needs to be done with no effort (because of omnipotence)This isn't the Biblical view.
I happen to agree with you on this point, the Bible depicts a God that has to rest after a hard week of creating and that can be surprised at what people do. Glad to see someone who can be satisfied with a God who is 'merely' powerful to create the universe, flood the world, make the sun stand still, resurrect the dead, and the like; without having to multiply by infinity to make sure other people's gods can't compete.
(November 4, 2013 at 1:59 pm)John V Wrote: Yes, people will have that satisfaction. You act as if this is a bad thing.
Unless it occurs to them that they're not discovering anything new, there's someone with the answers already who is just giving them something to do.
(November 4, 2013 at 1:59 pm)John V Wrote: Lucky thing for Christians then that the Biblical writers thought to put in passages such as those mentioned.
Funny thing that those passages (I must have missed you citing them, sorry, all I saw was that Jesus is working, which makes sense if there are things he still has to do for judgment day) were ignored until people started becoming dissatisfied with the promise of heaven. It wasn't a factor in my deconversion, but as a child I was struck at the vapidness of descriptions of heaven from the pulpit compared to descriptions of hell.
