(September 16, 2019 at 8:41 pm)mordant Wrote: And you're right, there are different version of heaven, too
Thank you! I don't think anyone on this forum has ever acknowledge it when I was right before. Even when I was.
Quote:My point however was that regardless of the details, heaven involves eternity, which is never-ending, and we are story-telling creatures of time who really, though we hate to admit it, need stories with beginnings, middles, and yes, ends. Whether heaven is like the life we know or not, it is ENDLESS. This is the fundamental problem. Either we'd lose our marbles eventually or we would have to be remade into something we wouldn't recognize.
Usually in theology, "eternity" doesn't mean endless. It is an unchanging state outside of time. The notion of getting bored in heaven is incoherent to the versions of heaven described by Aquinas, Dante, etc.