What is paradise like?

What is paradise like?

 

I think in paradise the lives that were lived here on earth will be known absolutely. People who were troubled, poor, and emotionally wounded will be identified. Peoples short life, hardships, and terrors will be identified. Whether they died from one of many plagues, from hunger, war, murder, or ideologically cruel oppressive factors it will be known. If their death was from an illness brought on by unsanitary conditions, because they had no health care, or from poverty, it will be noted. Then people will receive eternal compensation in love, joy and unending experiences in unlimited and joyful creativity.

 

In paradise each life may well be examined with a magnify glass. The real expert there, who is capable of absolute and perfect discernment, will be competently able to retrace every moment in time of each persons life. Every wrong decision, every misunderstanding he/she came to, every experience that brought out the worst in the person will be noted. Every bad example shaping his/her identity leading him/her down an unhealthy path to follow will be noted. All things will be seen clearly in the light.

 

Mercy then shall be distributed. Yet mercy won’t be according to human measurement, which always sees only the accomplished as deserving good. This mercy will be fair and understand the human condition in all it's complexity.

 

If another human voice, while here in the land of the living, objects to this and wants to challenge it and prescribe another antidote we then might ask is their prescription truly fair? What if that antidote for acceptance into paradise only allows safe passage for those who succeed at discovering a better way for themselves? is it a way, a path, that is really open to everyone everywhere or just rumored to be such? Suppose it’s true that the people that succeed and reach paradise do so only by arriving at that “supposedly only saving answer?” Then are the conditions the other people knew who didn’t reach that insight in their journey irrelevant to what everyone’s fate will end up being in the end? Can there be no fairness and compensation for those who grow up in other cultures for instance?

 

It seems by the doctrines presently held that there is no fairness. So then I ask this: Why for fairness sake then is the better way (where everyone is fairly understood) not the better of the two ways? Why can’t that option where love understands: mistakes, misleading ideas, confusion, ideological persuasion etc. be more obviously the plan and real nature and true character of God for the world?

 

Jesus is good and I don’t think discounting His teaching, friendship, His life, and death for sheer hopefulness on a fairer plan makes any sense. Yet neither do I think that the belief that 9/10th of most of humanity has no hope is any clearer belief.

 

I then decide to stick with Jesus and dispense with the narrow road to life. All through history there have been atrocious horrors inflicted on mankind. Religious wars were carried out as part of these doctrinal horrors. Today if modern society and modern laws didn’t intervene I’d be disemboweled for heresy for suggesting I dispense of the narrow road verse by the “God fearing people.”

 

I don’t think I’m totally discounting it but I am saying we don’t truly and totally understand it in our modern world.

 

Thought needs to be more forgiving and accepting of differing ideology effecting our troubled humanity. The human person is not a perfectly insightful agent capable of often even making the right decisions. Therefore I ascribe more mercy to Gods plan and defy the people who preach the Gospels as only saying Gods love will only reach in the end a few of the saved.

 

In paradise there are probably no valiant warriors on display rewarded for acts of brutality and murder either. There in paradise love is probably more clearly seen for it's self and it's true ways. If that be the case then love is the prime mover and is the ultimate voice of reason there. Love would detest violence, and that power of love, by it’s nature no doubt, spews the violent there out of it's mouth like sour wine. Love instead would likely embrace, like the Holy scriptures and Jesus teachings on earth: mercy, fairness, kindness, and forgiveness.

 

In paradise the idea of love as a name only gets it’s power there attached to and understood as belonging unto God. Here on earth we think we have some authoritative insight into love in our discernment. If we do why do we pass such terrible judgments on other human beings fates? We are not properly qualified to condemn people or even to condone anyone. Our sights should instead have compassion on human beings struggling with many different ideas.

 

Ideas themselves are never clear to the masses. The truth is in continues dispute. Truth rests on this assurance here or that assurance over there or over there. People then, mortal man still on the earth that is, decides "unfairly" the fate of other mankind.

 

I wonder if in paradise God decides there to play no games. There in paradise instead God opens Himself up to full view. Love is no longer seen through a haze but becomes fully and marvelously appreciated for all who live there. Hope is no longer a fleeting changing perspective. It is there that we know that there is nothing that can hurt us and that God is good.