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Is there any justification for the idea heaven will be boring?

has anyone had a good experience that was boring the second time because it was better?
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Wootah wrote: Is there any justification for the idea heaven will be boring?

has anyone had a good experience that was boring the second time because it was better?
Is there any justification for heaven at all ? As I understand, the Christian belief here is that we don't get to see heaven while on earth, and we don't get to go back to earth once in heaven. That neatly makes it impossible to prove or disprove it's existence. Anyway, given all that, isn't it meaningless to ask if anyone found it was good or boring?

I'm pretty sure I already know what life will be like after I die, for I have experienced it already. It will be exactly the same as for the 14.5 billion years before I was conceived. Neither boring nor exciting.

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Wootah wrote: Is there any justification for the idea heaven will be boring?
Church is boring, heaven is like church only it last much longer than an hour.
has anyone had a good experience that was boring the second time because it was better?
I propose that any activity would be come boring given enough repetition.

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From the OP:
Is there any justification for the idea heaven will be boring?
Ain't never been there to tell, so I gotta ask them that have what's it like.

What's it like, y'all that've been there?

Are there whores? Banjos and fiddles? Barbecue? Did George Jones make it up, or'd he go, ya know, down there? What about Waylon and Johnny?

On the way up, do they have the liquor in them tiny little bottles, so's I can pretend I'm Andre the Giant?
has anyone had a good experience that was boring the second time because it was better?
Kinda hard to have a good experience the second time, when there ain't no first time.
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I can't imagine it being better than this life, unless it is like this life only better.

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(1 Corinthians 2:9) "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

Hope it helps,

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Enoch2021 wrote: (1 Corinthians 2:9) "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

Hope it helps,
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Wootah wrote: Is there any justification for the idea heaven will be boring?
No one knows about heaven other than what they have been told by others who don't know either. Anyone is free to speculate (and many consider their speculations, called beliefs, to be true and accurate).

However, if made-up descriptions might apply, "Heaven" could be like being in church that never ends and being unable to escape.
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Wootah wrote: Is there any justification for the idea heaven will be boring?

has anyone had a good experience that was boring the second time because it was better?
Heaven is supposed to be one great long songfest hootenanny of nothing but singing the praises of God. How could an eternity of backside kissing possibly become boring?
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JoeyKnothead wrote: From Post 6:
Enoch2021 wrote: (1 Corinthians 2:9) "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him."

Hope it helps,
'Bout as much as any other unevidenced claim.
About as much as any other un-proven hope such as the rest of your future for instance which you plan for and hope for every day without proof you will see any of it, and an unproven hope is the definition of Christian faith.

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We had an existence with a free will in Sheol before the creation of the physical universe. Here we chose to be able to become holy or to be eternally evil in YHWH's sight. Then the physical universe was created and all sinners were sent to earth.

This theology debunks the need to base Christianity upon the blasphemy of creating us in Adam's sin.

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