Heaven: Justification.
A while ago, I made this post. Rereading it, I’ve realized I did little to explain myself. I’ll just quickly remedy that here.
In essence: will any human go to heaven?
The answer is, essentially, no.
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A while ago, I made this post. Rereading it, I’ve realized I did little to explain myself. I’ll just quickly remedy that here.
In essence: will any human go to heaven?
The answer is, essentially, no.
You will not go to heaven. Even should the religion be true, and you believe in it, it will not be you that lives there: if heaven is to be at all pleasant, your mind would have to be altered beyond all recognition. Ability to suffer/harm? Gone. Goodbye free will; and empathy and compassion? Lost, burnt away. Something as simple as boredom wiped away too; else eternity would make heaven into a hell.
You won’t go to heaven. Your memories, maybe; but not all of them. A fraction of an echo of you is all that can ever go to heaven, if it’s to be anywhere near as good as believers say.
So don’t advertise it as eternal life. It won’t be you that goes there.
Premises
The unstated premise being that there is a reason to evangelize (such as going to heaven). These premises are incompatible, for a very simple reason. This will be explained below in one hypothetical scenario.
Fact: there are people on this world that have not heard of God. Possibly a language barrier, or maybe they live in isolation; take rainforest civilizations and the like. For these people, there are three essential possibilities.
In situation 1, God is unjust. In situation 2, evangelizing is utterly pointless. In situation 3, evangelizing is downright harmful.
Which is it?