I Thought About It

 I thought about reposting the article I wrote about hell, but decided against it.  The article was well-received, but with that one once is enough.  My view of hell is pretty fixed, but my thoughts about heaven are wide open.  My Angels only said that if we knew what heaven was like we’d do anything to get there.  My Angels did say that only God creates so there is no need for sex in heaven.  Is it better than sex?  In a word, yes.  There are no earthly terms to describe heaven.  

It’s the very best of all places.  Do we just stand around and give praise to God?  Are there levels of attainment?  Do we strive to be Angels on various levels?  I have no idea.  Heaven can be anything one wishes it to bee.  We can think of it in so many ways.  Our imagination is limited by earthly knowledge.  Heaven cannot be described by human terms, yet this is all we know.  If Human Life is the only determining factor to keep one out, by my calculations most everyone is going there.

Hell is relatively hard to get there.  Total evil is the intentional taking of Human Life.  Not many are that evil.  But there are varying degrees of evil.  But I’d rather focus on Peace and Love because these are things I know.  Very few experience the kind of hatred to get into Hell.  Ultimate hatred is murder.  The opposite of Love isn’t just hatred, but a hatred that takes Human Life except when God does it.  

But I digress.  One never loses with love.  But how can I say I know these things?  I am my own proof.  I am all I have.  Otherwise there is no proof.  Otherwise there are guesses.  Maybe educated ones at that.  Religion teaches Peace and Love from the Master of Peace and Love.  Many claim to know the Master but still hate to varying degrees.  

I wish I had all the answers about heaven but I don’t; only what I have stated here.  But what is Peace and Love to those who don’t understand?  I don’t know.  I can use those words, but are they enough?  We throw around ideas of love meaning everything from fondness to sexuality.  Our understanding is limited.  Our knowledge is limited.  We can only be examples, and sometimes poor ones at that!

I find God in the universe.  I can find God in the smallest.  I can find God in the finite.  I can’t grasp infinity.  I’m not sure anyone can.  We talk about the beginning of time.  But what if time is endless with no beginning?  That is very difficult for anyone.  We are finite.  We can grasp the finite.  We want a beginning and prophets of every kind predict and ending.  But what if there was no beginning and there is no end?  As Spock would say, that doesn’t compute.  Is everything finite?  

I can see why it is easy to be an Atheist.  Most physicists and astronomers are.  Science is about probabilities.  If this then that.  Heaven is about the infinite as is hell.  What exactly is infinity?  Infinity is God Himself.  Is that possible?  Practically speaking; no.  God becomes impractical to a scientist.  Only what is known is practical.  Infinity is speculation.  Therefore, it can’t exist.  Time is not speculative.  Time has a beginning and therefore will end.  

This is my philosophical/theological mind at work.  Can we know infinity exists?  We can create the highest number known to the human race and all we have to do is add one.  That is infinity.  But of what use to us is that number?  None.  Why should we count to infinity?  Heaven is that number.  And at the end it is always plus one.  So, maybe I should smoke my pipe knowing my tobacco supply is limited.  Today it is my Boswell pipe with some Haunted Bookshop tobacco and stick to what I know.  My coffee this morning is Bella Maria and I limit myself to two cups a day.  Thank you for your time and Peace to each one of you.

Dave