Question for Atheists

[Esquilax]

I 've experienced the same thoughts. How could anybody stand to live forever? It sounds very scary. Actually, I think most people have the wrong notion of the afterlife. According to scripture, we will be physically resurrected on the last day. We will have physical bodies and will eat and drink and all that stuff - the bible speaks of the great feast. The bible also says that after the resurrection we will live on the "new earth", possibly a recreation od Eden. So I imagine we'll probably have jobs to do and so on and need an abode of some kind. Though worship of God will be the biggest thing, our existence will be physical. As far as the"eternal" part goes, we probably won't exist in time and will be living in the moment and will have no thought as of the length of time.

So god's solution to this is to brainwash me so that my perceptions of linear time change? Because that's the only way that's going to happen; human consciousness is temporal.

Nothing says we will know everything God knows and we'll probably continually be learning. Before you go off on this because of preconceived notions of the afterlife, the latter part of this post contains my personal idea of possible senarios, but the parts about the physical body, the new earth and the feast are in the bible.

Even if I go to heaven with exactly the same level of knowledge as I had when I died, eternity is enough time for me to learn all the things it's possible to know, and to get bored of them. The only way to avoid that is for the afterlife to not be static, but that would require god to create more things, calling into question whether god's initial plan to bring us all to heaven gradually had any point to it at all.