RE: What is the point of Heaven?
September 3, 2014 at 11:10 pm
(This post was last modified: September 3, 2014 at 11:13 pm by Dolorian.)
(August 18, 2014 at 5:13 pm)Manowar Wrote: Can someone please explain to me the point of Heaven? If you are good you go there and serve God, for ever and ever and ever, sounds pretty bad to me.
I'm a former Catholic, so I'll give an answer from that perspective.
Essentially, what you are asking is "why did God made us?". A short answer would be this:
God made us to know Him, to love Him, and to serve Him in this world, and to be happy with Him forever in the next.
Heaven is not really about "servitude" so it shouldn't be pictured that way but rather as the possession and enjoyment of eternal bliss. This bliss consists in the beatific vision of God or in other words, the intellectual beholding of the ultimate Good, which is what we all long for in this earth. The degree to which each individual beholds this good depends on their merits. Hell on the other hand consists in the denial of this vision as well as any other spiritual good and, of course, corporeal punishments.
The caricature that is usually made of people bowing to God for eternity in heaven isn't really accurate.
