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Originally Posted by ryguy
I think the way I do about heaven because it's supposed to be a 'reward' for not sinning on earth, and I figured the reward would be freedom to do what you've held off on. Of course, you can't kill or hurt people or anything like that because everybody is already dead.
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Now this to me is a misinterpretation of the Bible. Yes Heaven is a reward of sorts but man is expected to sin.
Its not the act of not sinning that is rewarded. Its the act of trying not to sin. For we are not perfect and will sin.
If one tries not to sin then they have a conscious and a sense of ethics.
If we were indeed capable of not sinning at all we would either have to be monk or dead.
if you really follow the Bible? We were(man or his representatives) thrown out of the perfect place when we were perfect!
I.E. the story of the Garden of Eden and Adam and Eve. Now they were given exactly what Heaven is considered to be, but given of free will were tempted and sinned.
Now that story may have been allegorical i.e. to represent the tribes of man. Who knows.
Heaven is a higher state, one were everything we could not answer is answered. Where everything makes perfect sense and we do not have to suffer disease,pain, etc... and there is pure unconditional love.
Hows that for an explanation