["What do you think heaven will be like?"]
I think the biggest supprise will be when people realize that some believers will have rank and honors while others will be peons.
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Now, I haven't read the Bible cover-to-cover, but I don't seem to recall anything about a heavenly hierarchy of the "saved". I don't think there's even any Biblical basis for this belief, much less real evidence.
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Papabear: "Read the parable in Matt 20:1-16. Also, Matt 16:27, Rom 2:6, Rev 20:13 & 22:12 and Psalm 62:12 all speak of men being rewarded according to their works."
Well, that just figures, doesn't it? Here I would be expecting an eternity of bliss and leisure, and the next thing I know, I've got a job -- and not just white-collar work, either, but going out to plow the fields on some archangel's estate. Forever. And that's supposed to be PARADISE?
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Let him be a peon in heaven and I'll party in Hell with all the other fun loving people. People who have fun tend to be doomed to hell by chrisians far more than the poor guy on the corner of the street.
So, if I've got this right, in Heaven we will all be oppressed by more powerful people, exactly like we were on earth.
Why are people so eager to get up there, then?
That's why the catholics talk about purgatory, acknowledging that there are some degree of variation between "eternal bliss" and "eternal punishment". Only that it is a temporary state, ending up in heaven anyway.
Doesn't sound much like Heaven to me.
if I had to say what Heaven should be like, I'd say it would be a place where everyone would be treated with equal respect.
“I think the biggest supprise will be when people realize that some believers will have rank and honors while others will be peons.”
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