Sunday, March 2, 2014

Can we reason in heaven?


In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (according to the Bible). He created the earth and everything that’s in it in six days. He created a human being in his own image and called him Adam and made him the master over all creations. However he commanded Adam not to eat the fruit of a certain tree which was in the middle of the Garden for he would surely die if he eats the fruit.
Days passed peacefully at the Eden Garden until the serpent appeared to Eve that fateful afternoon. The serpent’s (Devil) mission was to disclose God’s top secret to Man.
Quite opposite to what God had said, the serpent told Eve that eating the ‘fruit’ would open their ‘eyes’ instead. That she would become enlightened and be able to differentiate good and evil.
The package was attractive. She had two options – First, obey God and live with Him peacefully forever but in ‘ignorance’. Second, disobey Him and bear the risk of eternal damnation but gain the power to ‘reason’. She opted for the second. Her beloved joined her. The rest is …
My question is – Did man lack the ability to think or reason when he was living with God in Heaven? Or it was just positive thinking?
Will it be the same when we get to heaven? Well, I think …

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