What is Heaven?

This video speaks for itself. Heaven is more than most people realize.

Sources:

Heaven, Hell, and Purgatory - Jerry Walls

Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis

Reflection on the Psalm - C.S. Lewis

Handbook of Christian Apologetics - Peter Kreeft, Ronald Tacelli

Music: Floran Bur - White Angel

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[qwertypr]

40 years of being a Jehovah's Witness and now out I can watch videos like these. They make sense and are comforting.

[taekwondoista]

I’ve gotten more deep spirituality from Christianity than I have with all the other spiritual practices of the New Age. I thought Christianity was for people of “lower levels of consciousness.” I’m so grateful to come across your videos and love God more every day.

[YearsApart]

There was a moment in this video that i just uncontrollably burst into tears. I can't explain it. They were tears of joy and of sadness at the same time. Like the Holy Spirit was giving me an understanding of the joy to come and also the sadness of my own propensity to seek after joys of this world that do not satisfy and are so low compared to the joy of knowing God. All I could do was thank God for His goodness and love for me.

[PoetELouis]

"He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.” Revelation 21:4 ESV.

[antonioperez]

Let us construct a fable. Let us picture a woman thrown into a dungeon. There she bears and rears a son. He grows up seeing nothing but the dungeon walls, the straw on the floor, and a little patch of the sky seen through the grating, which is too high up to show anything except sky. This unfortunate woman was an artist, and when they imprisoned her she managed to bring with her a drawing pad and a box of pencils. As she never loses the hope of deliverance, she is constantly teaching her son about that outer world which he has never seen. She does it largely by drawing him pictures. With her pencil she attempts to show him what fields, rivers, mountains, cities, and waves on a beach are like. He is a dutiful boy and he does his best to believe her when she tells him that that outer world is far more interesting and glorious than anything in the dungeon. At times he succeeds. On the whole he gets on tolerably well until, one day, he says something that gives his mother pause. For a minute or two they are at cross-purposes. Finally it dawns on her that he has, all these years, lived under a misconception. "But, " she gasps, "you didn't think that the real world was full of lines drawn in lead pencil?" "What?" says the boy. "No pencil marks there?" And instantly his whole notion of the outer world becomes a blank. For the lines, by which alone he was imagining it, have now been denied of it. He has no idea of that which will exclude and dispense with the lines, that of which the lines were merely a transposition--the waving treetops, the light dancing on the weir, the coloured three-dimensional realities which are not enclosed in lines but define their own shapes at every moment with a delicacy and multiplicity which no drawing could ever achieve. The child will get the idea that the real world is somehow less visible than his mother's pictures. In reality it lacks lines because it is incomparably more visible.

So with us. "We know not what we shall be" [1 John 3:2]; but we may be sure we shall be more, not less, than we were on earth. Our natural experiences (sensory, emotional, imaginative) are only like the drawing, like pencilled lines on flat paper. If they vanish in the risen life, they will vanish only as pencil lines vanish from the real landscape, not as candle flame that is put out but as a candle flame which becomes invisible because someone has pulled up the blind, thrown open the shutters, and let in the blaze of the risen sun.
C.S. Lewis

[joshtheking]

I think I'm slowly becoming Christian again.

[sjappiyah]

Whilst I’m not on board with all the statements here ( at least yet), I find it appalling that people are calling you a “false prophet” simply because they disagree on some small points.
This is a Cancerous attitude in our community we need to stop, this is how we have 30, 000 sects of Protestants.

*Important correction*

This comment was a year ago, and I said 30, 000 sects because that’s something I’ve heard a lot. Since then I’ve learned that that’s not true at all and a misrepresentation. My apologies for that.
As a protestant myself i’m embarrassed that I spread this myth. However thanks to God’s grace i’ve grown stronger in my faith & understanding of church history.

Whilst I still maintain that there is SO much internal bickerings, unnecessary divisions, and disagreeing in the protestant community many times over menial disagreements (compared to caths & orthos) I should not have ill informedly spread a false myth.

[ibperson]

I was almost middle-age before knowing that anyone has ever said they might not like Heaven. Had never imagined such a view. The very *point* of Heaven is that it’s wonderful.

It felt like hearing, “I don’t want good outcomes.” Seemed *definitionally* incoherent. Ive since heard it quite a few times. Endless joy and awe, the transcendent wonder of pure light and love and action in humble union with the Divine. Like an NDE times ten. Perfection. Or, in a word.. Heaven.

[EnlightenedDrive]

As a child of someone who died of suicide, I have to say that people don't kill themselves because of selfishness. They kill themselves because they are in pain. Sufferers of chronic pain, either physical or emotional, will do anything to stop the pain.

[emiliog]

“Today you will be with me in paradise”

[andrewwells]

"For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope"
Jeremiah 29:11

[ArmorofTruth]

I can't really get enough of this video!

You know what makes God's gift of eternal life even more amazing, if it were possible, is the fact that we already know who our family in Heaven will be! We can see them now! And talk to them about it now!

What else could melt away the pains and tragedies of this world if not that precious truth of eternal life; that it has already begun right here, right now and we can celebrate it anytime we like!

"Take heart, for I have overcome the world."

All tears will be dried.
We can get a taste of it today if we seek out and share the joy of salvation with our eternal brothers and sisters today.

My heart breaks for hard hearted skeptics who can only find reasons to deny a gift so perfect and so free.
Therefore,
WE MINISTER!

Scholars and laymen alike, WE MINISTER!

[predatorwarthug]

The more watch your videos, the more I acknowledge the peace of Christ Jesus. Thanks much IP

[Vinsanity]

In all the near death experiences Ive studied they never mention any pain or hardship, just an overwhelming feeling of love. Im not sure where you get the idea of sanctification as a hardship, when we are free from the flesh we will no longer have a desire to live in the flesh

[Kuudere-Kun]

Contemporary "Heaven" is not the paradise we're looking forward, what we look forward to is the New Heaven and New Earth, this world restored to how it was before The Fall. We are looking for The Resurrection not an After Life.

[Nunya_Bidness_]

"Heaven is for people who enjoy the sort of thing that goes on in heaven." - Lord Edmund Blackadder

[felipemejia]

... Was taken to a small hill, with other two persons. Saw an unending sea of people, just in front of us. Looking at a Powerful light, in front of them (in front of us too). They seemed to be absorbed in that light. We ran down the hill to see what was going on. We came to a wall of people twice as tall as us, wearing white robes; and then, we felt it. An incredible feeling of joy, emanating from the light's direction, that can not be described.
One thing I can tell you for sure, such a feeling was so great, that you have no other desire but to enjoy it.
The most amazing part is that, I realized that this joy is eternal; which made the joy the greater.
Just my testimony. Shalom

[berts]

The supposition that denizens of hell would only need to wish to be in heaven & and your statement about atonement being the process of sanctification I sank really Rings true

[MrDOB]

I used to suffer from problems, anxiety as a kid and teenager, later selfishness, decadence, lust, possibly borderline personality disorder. I made some bad mistakes, being impetuous and had bad coping strategies. now I see it differently as a Christian and looking at things in retrospect I realise I was lacking God's love, and was essentially apart from God. Also, I felt on many occasions, in retrospect, I've suffered from spiritual attacks. I still struggle at times with anxiety but I'm learning to stop being afraid, I've had strong spiritual experiences on a good note and engaged with God, prayer in christian settings since becoming Christian about 4 years ago. These videos are very useful

[redheadjedi]

Your music choices are tip notch my man!