How do you envision heaven and eternity?

i had a dream vision, i opened my eyes, and i beheld a pure white scene before my eyes.

it could be called heaven, but it could also be a holographic image that was placed in my mind and in my dream.

i had two of them like that.

often and repeatably i have had a pure white lite brighter than the noon sun. once i woke up thinking that it was the afternoon but when i removed the blankets from my head, i found out it was more like midnight.

once, i had a dream/vision or an OBE that i beheld a group of people entering my room with a flashlight. 2 or 3 times i had a similar obe which i beheld lightning shock the bottom of my feet. and i opened my eyes feeling like i had died and i had just be revived.

on other occasions i have seen spirit prison and farm paradise and apartments that seemed not to be mortality.

once, i had an experience where i descended from the sky above and i watched myself descend to the earth and as i descended i could feel the polution in the air. as i beheld a gas station with snow and ice as i stood on the ground.

The Bible actually clears all of that up. Jesus Christ himself said that death is like sleep. (John 11:11-14) Sleeping persons are not doing anything. They are just asleep in a state of inactivity. Furthermore, Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10 says, "For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going." This backs up what Jesus said by saying that a dead person is not anywhere and does not do anything. He is just dead.

In other words, death is the opposite of life. If you've ever gone under full anesthesia where you are just sleep without any dreams, that is what death is like. When I went under, I didn't remember anything but counting backwards before I went under and waking up. I didn't even know that four hours had passed. The Bible clearly teaches that there is no afterlife. However, just like I was awakened from the anesthesia, the dead also will have an opportunity to be awakened to live forever on the earth after it is turned into a paradise. In fact, Jesus Christ said, "The hour is coming, and it is now, when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God and those who have given heed will live. Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out." (John 5:25, 28, 29; compare Psalms 37:9-11, 29; Acts 24:15)

So, you see, death is not what many people say it is, and there is no afterlife. For more info, check out http://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-teac...

If, indeed, there is an afterlife, then I believe it is simply a rejoining with the universe/God, from which we came. I think we're just here to play this particular game for a while; when we die, I believe we get to go back and critique the performance, and maybe sit and watch and kibbitz while watching others take their turn. Maybe we even go back and try again, just for the fun of it :-) An eternity is a LONG time to be bored ;-)

Join he Rastafarian movement. It is the only way!

Rastafarians in general called their Judeo-Christian god Jah, and believe a version of the Bible that has been altered from what was originally compiled by Europeans. Some worship the divinity of Haile Selassie as their main prophet, but also have Judaic prophets in Moses and Elijah.

Rastafarians believe in their return to Zion, which would be Africa, as opposed to a kind of afterlife. In Jamaica, Rastafarians are also known for their use of marijuana in order to enter a trance like state and to also socialize with each other in what is called "reasonings."

Rastafarians are not necessarily trouble makers or rabble rousers, but are often very independent in their beliefs and they believe that each person has their own connection to God and should explore it to the fullest extent they can. Dreadlocks are one typical style of hair for Rastafarians and have several meanings, such as the appearance of a lion's mane that harkens back to their roots in Africa. Another belief is that of the Jewish law to not cut one's hair.

With our finite minds it is impossible for us to ascertain the actual great factor approximately Heaven. How can a finite strategies understand the endless. i'm able to purely envision and picture the beauty of the comparisons that Jesus gave us to image Heaven as: streets as of gold, pearly gates, worthwhile jewels and stones of the main attractive description. As attractive and excellent as this image is Heaven is plenty better than we able to imagining.

i'm 60 yrs old, been thinking the same thoughts as you 'bout 50 yrs now.

i believe life goes on. no death of person, only of body.

i could write pages and pages

simplest terms i imagine a star trek(capt.kirk version) as akin to heaven. God has promised eternal life, hHe knows his creations(us) need stimulation to stave of boredom.

kind of silly i guess, but what i'm saying is, i trust God has an acceptable plan.

i doubt very much if he needs(or wants) us to hang around for his eternity singing hosanna.

The only heavens I believe in are the stars and planets and galaxies, and the only thing that's eternal is our universe when considered in four dimensions. That's enough for me, though.

Watch the old Twilight Zone episode "A Nice Place to Visit" to get an idea.

It goes from no where to now here. Complete bliss and Love in every moment. I don't dare try to comprehend God who "ME"? No no "I" can not comprehend the One.

Sounds really boring to me.