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People just don’t understand heaven. It’s not infinite time, it’s eternity - without time
The way I see it, heaven would be a nice home, a place of reunions and rest. But what is the point of being unchanging?
Also, what does it mean to bask in God’s light? How can that equally happen in a place outside of time, but also is possible on Earth?
I think the whole concept has been completely warped from what Jesus actually said
Christianity went to some weird places when Constantine merged it with the Roman religion. The common interpretation makes no sense
Without time, nothing can occur.
Let’s see what Jesus said about heaven in Matthew 13:
It’s a metaphor where believers are the wheat and nonbelievers are the weeds. Both are allowed to grow, but only the wheat goes back to the farmer.
Later in the chapter, Jesus explains it explicitly:
He tells a similar parable with fish instead of crops:
Christian “love” hinges on threat of eternal punishment.
Then there are parables he doesn’t explain:
In Matthew 6, he emphasizes that you’ll have eternal treasures in heaven:
Sounds materialistic.
Jesus gets way too much credit. He said some stupid, deadly bullshit. He was a liar and a hypocrite.
Jesus made it sound like a pleasant vacation, a banquet, a feast.
The problem is that heaven collapses under the weight of eternity if you think about it (as you are doing). I don’t think it’s some kind of corruption or “going to a weird place” to reconcile the idea of an placid idyll with eternity; it’s just a place things naturally go when you consider the implications.