RE: Christians & Muslims DO NOT Worship the Same God
https://steemit.com/religion/@l0k1/if-there-is-a-heaven-what-is-it-and-what-is-god
Here is my philosophical, epistemological and theological take on God, Judgement, Repentance, Angels and the question of whether God Acts. And Heaven and Hell - through logic I get two answers: Judgement for the wicked is itself hell (think of a realtime replay of your sensory record, except to be able to notice the things you were too busy with a clouded, younger mind - not gonna be fun for a bad person). And heaven. Well, I just want another life. Can I have that?
I really liked this dialogue I had with myself in this article. Especially the ending. I actually stepped outside myself. I acknowledged my follies and fixations. I basically said, after thinking through my life, I want to be born into a new body, one with a far less clever brain, and maybe a serious physical impairment. With parents who are rebels against a system of law that has always to me been the Law,
I couldn't stand an eternal leisure of heaven, even if I was able to try and make some limitations to give my life a sense of value. And hell as eternal punishment fails because the human nervous system normalises everything to zero. If your eyes stopped twitching very slightly left and right for even 2 seconds, the world goes grey. If you don't move your body, you forget where it is.
What makes you think Heaven is eternal leisure?
Matthew 25:23
His master replied, 'Well done, good and faithful servant! You have been faithful with a few things; I will put you in charge of many things. Enter into the joy of your master!'
Luke 19:17
His master replied, 'Well done, good servant! Because you have been faithful in a very small matter, you shall have authority over ten cities.'
Revelation 20:6
Blessed and holy are those who share in the first resurrection! The second death has no power over them, but they will be priests of God and of Christ, and will reign with Him for a thousand years.
Sounds like a promise of luxury and leisure to me.
When my hearing is done, before the Judge, and he asks me what I want, it will, like I say, be just another ordinary life, filled with the gifts of the dreams and struggles of His creation, the beauty of the small and the humble. Even with so much more that I want to strive for remaining, I could be struck down right now, and just to watch my life again, passively, and before the Hosts, I do not want glory. I am so filled already that I want for nothing.