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Heaven
Yes, the Way was open and the Way led to the Trinity.
And the Trinity IS Heaven.
We have noted that God, Himself, is the eternal reward of man - that is, sharing that Godhead.
If we find bewilderment in the beauty and grandeur of the material creation, what of the created spiritual? And if the spiritual creation excels the material, what of the divine Spiritual?
If all our aims on earth are towards love of friends and family and love of the things around us, the satisfaction of these are infinitely less than the Love that is God.
If our efforts are towards gaining knowledge of the unending mechanisms of creation, what of the Knowledge that is God?
And, if we value our existence to the incredible extent that we find daily, what of the Existence that is God?
We hear some comment that Heaven will be boring. There seems to be a thought that hell is where the action will be while the wimps loiter around in a dull Heaven!
This type of thinking is born of concentrated ignorance and insanity and comes from evil.
On the other hand, there is the thought that Heaven is a place where one loses his individuality and joins a billion others in an eternity of robot-like praise for God.
Do they really think that God wants praise from robots!?
Of course, praise and adoration of God is a part of Heaven, a natural part that will come forth in the mere living in God. It will come just as natural as the beauty of creation is in an harmonious state of adoration of the Creator. Indeed, this praise and adoration will be the fulfilment of our greatest gifts:
the ability to recognise, to acknowledge and to appreciate the Godhead.
These gifts from God, the power to recognise, acknowledge and appreciate, are truly God-like in nature.
The fact of the matter is that your identity and mine will reach a perfect state, which will astonish us with delight upon delight. Our beings will reach an ultimate fullness, yet at the same time, sharing all that we are able, of God. Just as the Person of Jesus shares the Godhead, so will you and I, in Him, and that is not losing our identity, by any means. Indeed, it is gaining our identity, totally.
We will each share in the Divinity according to the capacity of each. My absolute capacity will find fulfilment - 'my cup is overflowing'. Psalms 23:5. Our capacity will result from our use of our freewill here on earth, choosing for God; for Jesus.
"The first came before him and said: thy pound has made ten pounds. And he said to him: well done, my true servant; since thous hast been faithful over a very little, thou shalt have authority over ten cities." Luke 19:17.
Hell
Getting everything one believes one wants seems like a good thing, (at first glance). If young children get all the things they believe they need, the results would be disastrous, often enough.
That is why drugs, poisons and razor blades are made unavailable to children. This is why infants are kept away from hot stoves, boiling water, cliff edges and wild animals.
For those who choose evil, they have sought self-
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