If you are religious, where do u believe heaven "is?"

[*Deidre*]

Sounds about right to me, without the 'just'.

Touche. Kind of like calling the best orgasm of your life "just sex".

Sig worthy.

According to scripture, we will be raised in physical bodies which will be "glorified" bodies, similar to the physical state of Jesus after his resurrection. We're told he walked, talked and ate and so on. The book of Revelation speaks of a "new Jerusalem" and a "new earth" where believers will reside after the final judgement. I picture the new earth to be similar to the garden of eden. It makes the bible story kind of like paradise given, paradise lost because of sin, paradise restored for those who have trusted in Christ's atonement for our sins. Revelation also speaks of Jesus coming to rule the new earth and living with us there. I assume we'll all have jobs to do, homes to live in etc. As to where heaven is located now, I ask myself "how large is the universe?" and "what is beyond the edge of the universe?". My guess is that heaven is what is beyond the edge of the universe.

I wonder though why life on earth can't be likened to a paradise. So is paradise a ''place'' where there is no pain? As a Christian once, I was taught that God created the earth to be painless, in perfection, so to speak. Mankind ruined that in the Garden of Eden. The reason I find it all so nonsensical at this point is why would an all knowing and almighty 'Creator,' create an imperfect creation, knowing full well that it would not be able to uphold his perfection?

This is why I never believed in heaven, even as a Christian, because it made no sense as to why it would even be 'needed.' Why is an after life ...'needed?'

Boring. More eating and going to work in the morning .. forever. Yeah, sure, that could be heaven. Out of the way I'm going to be sick!

Only if I'm endlessly getting promoted and given raises, will it be worth it. :p