[Vision2020] I like to think there really is a Heaven . . .

[Scott Dredge]

<nobody goes to heaven because God does not want people to go to heaven 
and live forever with him.>
I would guess that would be because that would turn Heaven into Hell for God so obviously He wouldn't want that.

<In fact, he doesn't want people to live 
forever at all.>
Hmmm...are you sure about this?  I think we're pretty much stuck with this whole eternal life business which is why we wind up constantly talking about it for eternity.

Before my human body was conceived, I was supposedly 'non-existent'.  And yet I somehow survived this supposed non-existence.  I find that to have been a pretty neat trick.

-Scott

From: nielsen at uidaho.edu
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2013 17:59:25 +0000
Subject: [Vision2020] I like to think there really is a Heaven . . .






Beautiful thoughts, Donovan and Tom. But don't count on them coming true.



In the Hebrew religion, in the Old Testament/Hebew Bible, nobody goes to heaven because God does not want people to go to heaven and live forever with him. In fact, he doesn't want people to live forever at all. That is why Adam and Eve were kicked out
 of the garden of Eden before they would find the tree of life, eat of it and live forever (Genesis 3:19-24).



In the entire Old Testament/Hebew Bible only two people went to heaven: Enoch and Elijah. They were taken up alive because when we die we cease to exist.  



This means that any good we want to do we have to do now, while we are alive.



Ralph Nielsen
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Me too. For me it would be  to meet again and talk to all the people I have ever taken care of without a disability, advanced age or dementia being in the way of our conversation, and to see them happy and healthy with God and their loved ones. 
 
Donovan J. Arnold
 
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The things one thinks of at 3 in the morning, such as . . .

I like to think that there really is a Heaven that you enter upon your passing and it begins with the happiest day of your life.

For me . . . I would be sitting with friends at a table at "My Brother's Place" (a tavern in Newport, Rhode Island) in March of 1973.  I would ask that attractive redhead sitting at the next table to dance . . . and it would start all over again.

And you?  What would Heaven be to you?

Tom Hansen









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