Friday, April 11, 2025

Sent Down From Paradise

So, the question that's been bothering me for a while now is what would happen if you indulged in anti-social behaviour in heaven?   Would you be expelled and is so, how would that work?  Now, I know this presupposes that the afterlife exists, that it conforms to Christian conventions with regard to its form and that any of us would qualify for entry in the first place.  But, taking all of this on board, if you were evicted, where would your immortal soul go?  I know that the obvious answer is 'the other place', but surely if you are already in heaven, then you have already been judged, on the basis of your earthly deeds, that you are good enough to avoid Hell, (and we keep getting told that it is those earthly deed that count when your fate is weighed up).  So, if Hell is out of the question, then where can you be expelled to?  Is there, perhaps, some limbo specially reserved for those kicked out of heaven where you suffer punishment, but nowhere near as severe as the ones handed out in Hell?  Or, could it be that you are just sent back to earth, back to your old body?  Which raises yet more questions - what if you were cremated, being the most obvious.  But supposing that you weren't, would you suddenly wake up in your grave?  One would suppose that you'd have to be some way of getting out of there, otherwise you'd just suffocate and find yourself back in heaven, only to be refused entry and sent back to that coffin again in order to suffocate again and - well, you get the idea.

But once resurrected, would you still be mortal, or just condemned to carry on forever in your decaying and increasingly decrepit body.  I mean, if you died at age 101, say, that would be a pretty grim prospect.  Even more so if you'd had something like Alzheimer's or a terminal illness that left you in constant pain.  What if you had been horribly mangled in an accident to the extent that you had to have a closed casket funeral?  Spending eternity as a decapitated corpse, say, doesn't sound like much fun.  But let's be optimistic and assume that you find yourself scrabbling out of your grave with a rejuvenated and fully healed body - what then?  Would your grieving relatives be glad to see you?  After all, they would probably all have moved on, to new relationships, new lives.  If they had inherited money from you, would they have to give it back?  Where would you live?  If you'd been an elderly relative living with family, would they want you back?  The questions are endless.  But, to go back to the beginning, just what is it that you'd have to do to get kicked out of heaven in the first place?  A bar room brawl with St Peter?  Racially abusing Martin Luther King?  Feeling up Jesus?  Because it would have to be pretty out there to get expelled over.  Maybe sexual desire isn't allowed up there, because of the supposed purity of ascended souls - but what if you still got the horn and started making overtures to all the deceased glamourous ladies (would that count as necrophilia)?  

Like I said, these are the questions that have been perplexing me of late - there just don't seem to be any answers out there.  You'd think that the God squad would have some insight into this stuff, but no, they just claim you are being blasphemous if you bring it up!  You'd think that there'd at least be a Facebook group or sub-Reddit devoted to these matters, but it is a desert out there with regard to discussion of these issues.  I just don't understant it at all...

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