Comments on: Make Your Heaven! http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/ The manic mind of the minister -- Auntie Mame Meets Cotton Mather Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:44:03 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5 By: Lynette http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-15656 Lynette Wed, 02 Apr 2008 20:52:56 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-15656 Oh, and meant to add, that since God Is Love and the Great I AM, being downloaded onto his hardware I think would pretty much be your description of Heaven. He created all of that and all of them, so why wouldn't it all be part of Him? (Forgive the "Him" -- don't you wish English had a non-gender specific term other than "it?") The more I read of your blog, PB, the more I think you've got your head (spiritual, religious, theological, emotional, philosophical, "Important Thinker") screwed on straight. New England is better for you being here. Oh, and meant to add, that since God Is Love and the Great I AM, being downloaded onto his hardware I think would pretty much be your description of Heaven. He created all of that and all of them, so why wouldn’t it all be part of Him? (Forgive the “Him” — don’t you wish English had a non-gender specific term other than “it?”)

The more I read of your blog, PB, the more I think you’ve got your head (spiritual, religious, theological, emotional, philosophical, “Important Thinker”) screwed on straight. New England is better for you being here.

]]> By: Lynette http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-15653 Lynette Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:01:58 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-15653 Hi PB -- recently discovered you (thanks for the referral, Miss Conduct), and am catching up on past blogs. I'm a Baptist, but with a much different understanding of heaven than what most Christians believe. I had a hard time explaining what I believe (and I believe the Bible really says) until I came across an article in Time (Christians Wrong about Heaven Says Bishop) from the Archbishop of Durham (Church of England). Thought you might like to read it: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html He summarized his position by quoting John Polkinghorne, a physicist and a priest: "God will download our software onto his hardware until the time he gives us new hardware to run the software again for ourselves." Hi PB — recently discovered you (thanks for the referral, Miss Conduct), and am catching up on past blogs. I’m a Baptist, but with a much different understanding of heaven than what most Christians believe. I had a hard time explaining what I believe (and I believe the Bible really says) until I came across an article in Time (Christians Wrong about Heaven Says Bishop) from the Archbishop of Durham (Church of England). Thought you might like to read it: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1710844,00.html

He summarized his position by quoting John Polkinghorne, a physicist and a priest: “God will download our software onto his hardware until the time he gives us new hardware to run the software again for ourselves.”

]]> By: h sofia http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5940 h sofia Wed, 05 Sep 2007 23:21:36 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5940 Hmm. I haven't thought much about what happens after death after some 20+ years of thinking that I knew exactly what happened after death. Maybe I will get around to it sometime again (before I die)! Hmm. I haven’t thought much about what happens after death after some 20+ years of thinking that I knew exactly what happened after death. Maybe I will get around to it sometime again (before I die)!

]]> By: Suzanne Jubenville http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5868 Suzanne Jubenville Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:21:07 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5868 I'm also quite interested in the neurological aspects of near-death experiences. But the way I see it, the brain is not the mind, merely the tool that generates thought and filters data. The brain is limited; the mind is not. For example, there are many things that we cannot see or hear (frequencies of light and sound) because our brains are not capable of translating that data, or even of "noticing" it. I think that near-death experiences are our physical brain's way of trying to interpret and understand data that is completely non-physical. It is of the mind, in other words, not of the brain, and the interpretation is only as good as the limitations of the brain. Thanks for a thought-provoking blog. I’m also quite interested in the neurological aspects of near-death experiences. But the way I see it, the brain is not the mind, merely the tool that generates thought and filters data. The brain is limited; the mind is not. For example, there are many things that we cannot see or hear (frequencies of light and sound) because our brains are not capable of translating that data, or even of “noticing” it. I think that near-death experiences are our physical brain’s way of trying to interpret and understand data that is completely non-physical. It is of the mind, in other words, not of the brain, and the interpretation is only as good as the limitations of the brain.

Thanks for a thought-provoking blog.

]]> By: Tracie http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5867 Tracie Sat, 01 Sep 2007 14:11:58 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5867 I'm going to YOUR heaven. I’m going to YOUR heaven.

]]> By: Ian Lynch http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5865 Ian Lynch Sat, 01 Sep 2007 12:17:40 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5865 I get hung up on the issue of justice, so I can't see everyone making it through the wide open door of heaven after, since some in this life do love their evil so. So that means that these poor wretched souls have locked themselves into a hell here on earth that may be what they "choose" at death. Thus, there is as Rauschenbusch suggested, a hell where the doors are locked from the inside. Still being hung up on the issue of justice I continue to agree with Rauschenbusch that at least part of what we do in heaven is following our leader, Christ the liberator, in some sort of assault on the gates of hell so that everyone enjoys the blessings of heaven eventually. I think picking the locks of hell comes after swinging with the chimps and is followed by snuggling with mommy lions, but I could be wrong. ;-) I get hung up on the issue of justice, so I can’t see everyone making it through the wide open door of heaven after, since some in this life do love their evil so. So that means that these poor wretched souls have locked themselves into a hell here on earth that may be what they “choose” at death. Thus, there is as Rauschenbusch suggested, a hell where the doors are locked from the inside.

Still being hung up on the issue of justice I continue to agree with Rauschenbusch that at least part of what we do in heaven is following our leader, Christ the liberator, in some sort of assault on the gates of hell so that everyone enjoys the blessings of heaven eventually.

I think picking the locks of hell comes after swinging with the chimps and is followed by snuggling with mommy lions, but I could be wrong. ;-)

]]> By: juniper http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5864 juniper Sat, 01 Sep 2007 06:10:21 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5864 just dropping in the middle of unpacking a thousand boxes to say that I heart peacebang. thanks for a great post. just dropping in the middle of unpacking a thousand boxes to say that I heart peacebang. thanks for a great post.

]]> By: marcia http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5862 marcia Sat, 01 Sep 2007 04:26:37 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5862 I wanna go to your heaven, peacebang. Though I like Mary Chapin Carpenter's alot too. "In My Heaven" check it out on itunes. I wanna go to your heaven, peacebang.

Though I like Mary Chapin Carpenter’s alot too. “In My Heaven” check it out on itunes.

]]> By: Louise http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5860 Louise Sat, 01 Sep 2007 01:47:14 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5860 'After awhile Jesus comes up to you and says, “Honey, you don’t have to cry about that ever again.”' This made me cry. And since I know that crying is God's way of whupping me upside my head to pay attention, thank you for channelling the Whupping Hand o' God for me. ‘After awhile Jesus comes up to you and says, “Honey, you don’t have to cry about that ever again.”’

This made me cry. And since I know that crying is God’s way of whupping me upside my head to pay attention, thank you for channelling the Whupping Hand o’ God for me.

]]> By: Comrade Kevin http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5853 Comrade Kevin Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:07:33 +0000 http://www.peacebang.com/2007/08/31/make-your-heaven/#comment-5853 My conception of heaven is pretty idealistic, I have to admit. Everyone speaks in words of three syllables and reality TV shows are replaced by group workshops. My conception of heaven is pretty idealistic, I have to admit. Everyone speaks in words of three syllables and reality TV shows are replaced by group workshops.

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