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Perdition
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Message 4 of 50 (533216)
10-29-2009 11:41 AM
Reply to: Message 1 by Logic
10-28-2009 7:09 PM


Can you mentally age in heaven?
For many, the petinent question is the opposite: can you de-age in Heaven? I've had the unfortunate experience of someone dying in my finacee's family recently, and she was entirely cogent right up until the end. My own grandmother, however, suffered a series of strokes so that by the end, she was not the same strong person she had been for my whole life and presumably hers.
I know a lot of people whose minds have started to go long before their bodies, especially with Alzheimer's and other mental declines associated with old age. I'd hate to think that you're stuck in Heaven constatntly living in the past, or unable to remember who you are.

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Perdition
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Message 6 of 50 (533233)
10-29-2009 12:28 PM
Reply to: Message 5 by Modulous
10-29-2009 12:12 PM


Some believers think that your personality is stripped of its sinful nature and it is rendered in its natural 'prefall' type state. Mental illnesses are caused by the brain - so all of those would be gone. All that would be left is the part that loves God and you spend all your days wandering around a city made of gold worshipping Yahweh for eternity.
Sounds a bit boring...but then again, presumably boredom is a function of our past-fall biology and will stripped away.

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Perdition
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Message 15 of 50 (534277)
11-06-2009 1:12 PM
Reply to: Message 13 by Domino
11-06-2009 12:41 PM


Re: Dreaming Of YOU
perhaps they are even returned to their "pre-existence state," which would be a state of non-being.
This would be exactly what most atheists believe. You return to the non-existence from which you caim. However, as a consequence, you are no longer able to enjoy the non-existence since you don't exist to enjoy it. Sort of a tautology, that.

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