18. Imagine heaven
The conversation between Chris and Norm is pointless. Yes, at some
point Christ returns to take His people off to Heaven, very likely
before all hell breaks loose on Earth as THE anti-Christ takes over.
Will clothes and dentures and gold fillings be left behind? Well,
maybe and maybe not. It's anybody's guess. What difference does it
make? Although leaving those things behind will probably be very
effective in spooking a lot of people and getting them to take the
Bible seriously. Of course it all sounds impossible if you believe
in 19th century science. Miracles are easy to do in the block
universe. (See
Miracles Are Easy.)
As to what's in Heaven, consult chapters 21 and 22 of the Book of
Revelation. It's a real physical world with buildings, trees,
water, fruit and so on. It will be much like Chicago in the
summertime, except much nicer :-). No crooked politicians. No
taxes. No thieves. No litter. No traffic jams. No need for
money. No sinners of any sort. No atheists! Plastic shopping bags
will be free! People will have new bodies that will never wear out
or get sick. Here on Earth now, God follows the "laws" of physics
very closely. The so-called "laws" of physics that science has found
are really just patterns that God usually follows very closely. But
God doesn't have to follow them so closely in heaven so things that
we now consider miraculous will be routine there.
As to where it is, who knows? Maybe it could be somewhere in this
universe but far, far away. Or in another universe. Most people
are convinced that they have an immortal soul (even if they aren't
Christian) so they expect their soul will go somewhere. Physics
hasn't discovered everything yet so it is way too soon to say that
no such place exists.
Brain wants you to think you are delusional if you believe in
heaven. Or is Brain delusional by clinging to the 19th century
understanding of the world and assuming that he knows everything?
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