Re: Age in Heaven
Submitted by JohnQ on 2002-10-17 13:55:18, Thursday
In reply to Age in Heaven submitted by World Perfect on 2002-10-17 12:32:55, Thursday
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The apparent age of the saints in Heaven isn't given in Scriptures. All that the Scriptures indicate is that physically there will be no impediments, which would include those of old age. Some feel that everyone will be physically around the age of 33 since this was the age of Christ at His resurrection. The final chapter in "The Last Battle" of the Narnia series does give Lewis' ideas of the physical age in Heaven, but whether his view is correct or not no one living can say. In the first Century B.C., there began the idea that children will be as old as they were when they died, with a minimum age of 3, the Old Testament's age of Accountability (cf: Isaiah 7: 14-16) as well as passages from the Talmud, midrash, etc. Hence, the parents will have ideal children (i.e. without sin) for eternity to satisfy their maternal/paternal instinct. I personally tend towards this last group since I too need to be a "daddy" to somebody. And this can be justified by Scripture such as in Matthew "Unless you turn and become as a child, you cannot enter into the Kingdom of Heaven", "Permit the children to come to me and don't forbid them.For of such is the Kingdom of Heaven." etc. And who is closer to being LIKE a child than a child? |
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