Rey's A Point

Weird Existential Post

What makes me…me? I mean, there’s so much that makes up and defines Rey, particularly how he reacts and acts but in heaven, if I’m to be perfected, how different will that Rey be? Can I still be distinctly me? This was sparked by a conversation at a small faith.

And just like that, my post ends.

Rey

6 responses to “Weird Existential Post”

  2. Okay, this is a fun thought. My first reaction is this: Why would an all-knowing God go to the “trouble” to create unique individuals for earthly habitation (and subsequent spiritual growth) if there was no eternal need/use for it? I’m not sure how much like the earthly me the heavenly one will be, but I hope in some way I am still me. I trust that God is big enough to figure that all out. I can’t go much further down that line without realllly making my brain hurt. :) It is cool to think about, though. Makes me wonder how much what goes on in my earthly life here will affect what I’ll be doing eternally. We do know that the angels are amazed at His plan, and they can (evidently) see more of it than we can. I think I’ll rest in that. :D

  3. The Earth is a giant computer, and we’re all chips calculating the meaning of life, the universe and everything. I’ll save you all the trouble; the answer is “42”. ;)

  4. I think the Bible does point towards a connection between our earthly and heavenly existence so I, like Jenn, don’t think I can write off everything we do here.

    If I invert it and ask “will comndemned sinners remember why they were condemned?” I think we would answer in the positive. And if I asked “will justified sinners remember the source and hope and reason for their justification and ultimate salvation?” what would we say?

    But in all that the question still writhes–how much of me will still maintain a Me-istic personality. Paul would say that we currently look at a fuzzy glass but then we’ll be fully known.

    How far can we take that? Can we even understand it from this side of the mirror darkly?

  5. will comndemned sinners remember why they were condemned?

    I’m sure they’ll remember little else. It will be, after all, a reason of their own creation.

    I’m being optimistic and refering to condemned sinners in the second person plural, not the first person plural. I certainly HOPE I’m not part of the group!

    will justified sinners remember the source and hope and reason for their justification and ultimate salvation?

    My gut reaction is that we’ll remember it, but we’ll have a new context for it. We won’t think of it the same way as we do while we’re down here, in the mire.

    Have you read C.S. Lewis’s The Great Divorce? It’s an amazing, powerful, little novel (it’s short … about 200 pages if I remember correctly.) It is Lewis’s attempt to wrestle with these same questions through fantasy, and his answers convinced me. I tend to think about these issues now with an imagination shaped by that book.