Paradise
What do you wish you'd find in an afterlife?
Form:
Recognizable human bodies that don't age Half-visible shell of body over dominant spirit form Wisps of spirits, no body Brains in jars, communicating with each other Continually transforming existence End of existence Winged angel New identity on earth Other...
Location
Still on this planet In a fold of space/time continuum At another solar system or planet Out in the sky somewhere On a static level of the universeMoving fluidly through the universeIn the core of the Earth On another plane of the world we know Occupying all space, with speed travel In a state of mind or spiritual realm In the ground Other...
Activities
Ethereal existence Dulled mind, dealing with overwhelming eternity Absolute rest and contentment Revenge Control over personal situations Musical jamming and praise Quiet meditation Personal friendship with higher beingsConversations with familiar people Thinking over past life with regret Correcting things you couldn't control when alive No responsibility New challenges and amusements Eating foods you've never heard of State of absolute love Rescuing living people on earth Dancing without gravity Strategizing, improving new environments Freedom from critical resistance Freedom from injustice No pain, sickness No lack Ability to help the living Trying new activities without resumes and discouraging advice Other...
Scenery
Dream houses Clouds Cool places Darkness Return to earth home Unusual color, light Flames Limitless area Streets of gold Other...
Occupants
Old friends, family AngelsOnly you Aliens Your God Non-predatory animals Living earth residents Benevolent supernatural creatures Mixed good and evil supernatural creatures Other...
How Do You Get There?
Go through a tunnel of light, and heaven is at the end.Leave body in spirit form and float upBrain just stays in body and continues eternal activityBody dies, and that's the end.Take spaceship to other planetMove on to inhabit another life form.Find the fold of space/time continuum Be led by angels or saints to heavenBe guided by deceased relatives and friendsKeep looking until you find a place to settle Dissolve into nothingness Exist, and all thoughts will float through the universe
Decide, and you will appear wherever you choose
Reach a euphoric state and stay in itBe led by your God to the right placeSpeak, and you will arrive. Other...
For behold, I create new heavens and a new earth...no more shall be heard in it the sound of weeping and the cry of distress. No more shall there be in it an infant that lives but a few days, or an old man who does not fill out his days...they shall build houses and inhabit them; they shall plant vineyards and eat their fruit. They shall not build and another inhabit, they shall not plant and another eat...my chosen will enjoy the work of their hands. Before they call I will answer...
Isaiah 65:17-24 RSV
...The holy city had all the glory of God and glittered like some precious jewel of crystal-clear diamond....The wall was built of diamond, and the city of pure gold, like clear glass...I could not see any temple in the city because the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb were themselves the temple...on either bank of the river were the trees of life, which bear twelve crops of fruit in a year...
Revelations 21:10-22:2 JB
Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth; the first heaven and the first earth had disappeared now..."Look, here God lives among human beings. He will make his home among them...He will wipe away all tears from their eyes, there will be no more death, and no more mourning or sadness or pain.
Revelations 21:1-4 JB
Heaven is my throne, and earth is my footstool; what is the house which you would build for me, and what is the place of my rest?
Isaiah 66:1 RSV
And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they wll be like his glorious body.
Philippians 3:20, 21 NIV
...The water I give will become a spring of water gushing up inside that person, giving eternal life.
John 4:14 NCV
Find more at:
NT:
Matthew 3:2; 6:20
John 5:24; 6:27, 47; 10:27-28
Acts 3:21
I John 5:11-12
II Corinthians 5:1
Hebrews 8:1
OT:
I Kings 8:27
Job 22:12
Psalm 11:4; 23:6; 37:18
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