Spiritual Logic – Heaven

Convention wisdom says “John 3:16 “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.”

My thoughts are these:

The bible refers to a place that exists outside of the now, outside of our current reality. Note: this is debatable among Christians but most will agree – Heaven is a place and this place is good.  This place is where God dwells.

My logic sees things differently.

If heaven is a place, then it is a physical location.  Dur..easy one!

If heaven is a physical location then we have the ability to choose in that physical location. For example, if I’m walking on  a street in Heaven, I have the ability to choose to walk on the left side or the right side of the road.  If I see John on one side I may talk to him and bypass the chariot moving in the opposite direction or I may take the latter option and jump on the chariot. John is often boring anyway

Choice is inherently tied to every conscious being in a physical location.

Therefore if heaven is a physical location, there must also be the option to choose how we conduct ourselves there.

Again, I have to make this clear, choice is inherently tied to dualism.

If we have the ability to make any choice, we  have the ability to make a good choice or a bad choice, a choice that will make us feel a little better or one that will make us feel a little worse.  This is the nature of choice; to allow a free will of sorts to “discover” the right answer. We must have the ability to make the ‘wrong’ choice so as long as any right decision is available. It’s the nature of free will.

If heaven we’re a place of choice, of free will, it must also be a place where ‘wrong’ decisions are available. If this were the case, Heaven would be similar to earth in that suffering could occur.

If heaven is a place where suffering exists than it contradicts it’s own existence.

If this were not the case and heaven we’re not a place of choice then it must also not be a physical location.

Luke 17:21

nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is within you.”

Perhaps Heaven is a not a place but rather a state of being. A state of being that one can experience whilst when it’s raining or when the sun is shining.  Perhaps Hell is also a state of being, a state of separateness from the wholeness that we inherently are. And perhaps Heaven and Hell cannot exist without one another holding the other in place.

Because  if there was the ability to not experience the bad, the suffering, could we really know what the good is?

Gardening the Easy Way

Have any of you guys taken up gardening yet?  If you haven’t, I highly recommend checking it out at least for a little while.

My wifes says I snore too much

My wife kicked me out on the cough last night because I was snoring too loudly.  Because of the that, I woke up with a sore back this morning and am very tired.  This isn’t the first time this has happened. Ever since I put on 30 pounds, I’ve snoring pretty loudly (so I’m told). Does anyone have any good snoring cures?

What makes you Happy?

I just realized that I’m happiest when I’m doing the following

• meditating
• exercising
• spending time with friends and loved ones
• traveling
• working

What makes you happy?

 

Life is too short to not be happy. Wouldn’t you agree?