Suppressed Perspectives
To a person who chooses to be honest with themselves rather than suppress their feelings for the fear of burning in an everlasting fire, the thought of living in a mansion made of gold somewhere after they are dead doesn’t click. Even before worrying about its authenticity, let us use our reasoning to check the circumstances and manner in which it would work.
Most likely, you were taught about heaven in your early childhood. You were told that good people go to heaven while bad people go to hell. You were also told that heaven is for humans but not other creatures. That would mean that human life is much different from that of other animals or even plants. From such a claim, it is obviously unconvincing. Saying that heaven and hell are exclusively for human beings brings about obvious questions. Where does the life of a cow, a goat, a gorilla, a whale, a dog, an elephant, a lion, and others go after they are dead? Wherever it goes, that is the fate of a human’s life as well. All animals die if you were to cut their head off, and so do humans. All animals fall sick and either recover or die and so do humans. All animals breathe and die soon after they are unable to do so, and so do humans. If all animals are tied together by similar mechanisms of life and death, then it is unconvincing to say that humans go to heaven or hell while other animals complete their fate upon death. The exclusion is only because the concept of heaven and earth is a creation of humans. Had it been universally considered, even bacteria and plants would be accounted for as they are also important creatures.
The Bible promises mansions to Christians as written in John 4 verse 2,
“In My Father’s house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you.”
Revelation 21 verse 21 goes ahead to mention that the city would be made of gold. Not only has the beauty of a city been measured from a human’s perspective, but gold finds its way to heaven somehow, just not iron, timber, or leather if you get the point. Assuming that indeed there is a mansion or a room for you in heaven, why would you need it, yet you are not in the bodily form? As a human being, you need a room to shelter you from the sun, cold, rain, and so on, but in heaven, the above will not exist. You will feast and sing forever, says the book, but it fails to mention that if you are eating, you will need to digest the food, and if you digest the food, you will need toilets if you see my point.
Mathew 8 verses 11 and 12 says,
“I say to you that many will come from the east and the west, and will take their places at the feast with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven. 12 But the subjects of the kingdom will be thrown outside, into the darkness, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.”
Think of yourself feasting, having been holy, but the people you loved missed heaven, having committed sins but died before seeking forgiveness. It is extremely selfish to harbor thoughts of you feasting while your brother or sister is gnashing his or her teeth in the flames of hell. You may live a holy life, but we cannot all do that, which means a good number of your friends and relatives will not make it to heaven. For heaven’s sake, do not snitch them; let us all burn whether we are holy or not if at all loving one another means something. Kill the thoughts of you enjoying while the others suffer. It isn’t very comfortable for you to expect others to burn, ye holy one.
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