Zone1 If there is a Heaven, what do they do up there all day?

[Mr Natural]

You sit around all day thinking about how wonderful it is to be dead.

 

[Dogmaphobe]

It sounds to me that they like to bowl.

 

[1srelluc]

Hopefully.

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

The Baltimore Catechism taught children in question form.

Q: Why did God make me?
A: God made me to know Him, to love Him, to serve Him, and to be happy with Him in this world and the next.

I look forward to serving God. Consider the adage of, "If you choose a job/career that you love, you will never work a day in your life." I'm not sure I even ever chose a job/career--I either stumbled or was pushed into them, but I loved them all. Loving and enjoying my work on earth, I very much look forward to how God has chosen me to work at serving Him in the next world.

One thing I know (or at least have been given a good hint): I won't be one of those singing praises. I have a terrible singing voice. I'm not exaggerating. As a new mother, I knew it was my job to sing lullabies to my baby. She worked very hard to say her first words. Not kidding: Those first words were, "Mom, don' sing."

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St. Augustine said, "Singing is like praying twice".

One of my favorite Catholic online personalities is Fr. Chris Alar, and he also claims to be unable to sing beautifully. I've heard him lead the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, speaking instead of singing. He claims we would thank him for that.

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[Meriweather]

Kind of makes God sound like a bit of a narcissist.

Shrug. We have gone over this before. If one doesn't put God and his ways first, what is a better option?

 

[Meriweather]

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St. Augustine said, "Singing is like praying twice".

One of my favorite Catholic online personalities is Fr. Chris Alar, and he also claims to be unable to sing beautifully. I've heard him lead the Chaplet of the Divine Mercy, speaking instead of singing. He claims we would thank him for that.

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One of our Pastors surveyed us in the congregation one morning after the morning hymns. He marched over to the pulpit, glared at us, and said, "God gave you your voice, so give it right back to Him! He likes how it sounds, no matter how it sounds to you!" (Yes, the rest of the hymns sounded much more enthusiastic.)

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

One of our Pastors surveyed us in the congregation one morning after the morning hymns. He marched over to the pulpit, glared at us, and said, "God gave you your voice, so give it right back to Him! He likes how it sounds, no matter how it sounds to you!" (Yes, the rest of the hymns sounded much more enthusiastic.)

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Sounds just like something our priest would say!

He is humble about his own vocal skills, but every time he sings the Concluding Doxology, I get the greatest feeling. That's when our congregation responds with the heartiest, "Amen"!


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[SweetSue92]

Y

You must be fun to live with

Now why do you say that, bc I don't give myself out to whomever, whenever?

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Play scrabble? Go for walks? Think and ponder?
Have meaningful conversations with God?

Earn special privileges, like day release visits down to Earth, to see how everyone’s getting on?

If babies in the womb understood they would soon leave their world and enter another, how could they even imaging what the world beyond their is like.

We can only see the World to Come dimly and learn from the One who has been there.

I'm afraid you'll have to wait and see.

But you need to know this: you won't go to heaven. The meek inherit the EARTH

 

[OhPleaseJustQuit]

It sounds to me that they like to bowl.

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That's what my mom said when we were kids.

Worked for me because I love thunder and lightning. Especially strobe lightning!



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[JoeB131]

Shrug. We have gone over this before. If one doesn't put God and his ways first, what is a better option?

Living your best life and not believing in Bronze Age Superstitions.

 

[ding]

Play scrabble? Go for walks? Think and ponder?

Have meaningful conversations with God?

Earn special privileges, like day release visits down to Earth, to see how everyone’s getting on?

Share in God’s existence.

 

[Hafar1014]

Its heaven baby

 

[ding]

Living your best life and not believing in Bronze Age Superstitions.

You get so much joy from that that you’re here subverting faith in God.

 

[Hafar1014]

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Its heaven baby

 

[petro]

They better allow dogs, or I am scalping my ticket

 

[norwegen]

Play scrabble? Go for walks? Think and ponder?

Have meaningful conversations with God?

Earn special privileges, like day release visits down to Earth, to see how everyone’s getting on?

The Scrabble would no doubt be entirely in ancient Hebrew. We would all lose.

 

[JoeB131]

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Its heaven baby

That looks more like Muslim Heaven than Christian Heaven.

Although they probably aren't virgins and there aren't 76 of them.

 

[buttercup]

If you expect to be good enough, you never will be.

God's standard is perfection. Because He is so holy He cannot accept less.

The ONLY way to gain that perfection is to "put on Christ". That's it.

I was thinking the same thing, you beat me to it. Thanks.

 

[Natural Citizen]

I'll bet that if someone presented a poll asking if you're going to Heaven or not, most everyone will answer yes.

Something I've noticed quite a bit whenever anyone dies is that everybody's always like ''I'll bet he's up there in Heaven right now looking down at all of us and smiling, blessees heart''

At times I'm thinking to myself, pft, that asshole's roasting in the pits of Hell's fire right about now screaming about I's sorry, lemme outta here, puhleez...