personallife

After death, the martyrs depicted in Revelation 6:9-11 clearly remember at least some of what happened on Earth, including that they underwent great suffering. If they remember that, what wouldn't they remember? There's no reason to assume that in heaven we will forget our lives on earth. In fact, we'll likely remember much more there than we do here and we'll probably be able to see how God and angels intervened on our behalf when we didn't realize it. In heaven, those who endured bad things on earth are comforted for them (Luke 6:25). This comforts implies memory of what happened. If there was no memory of the bad things, what would be the need for, purpose of, or nature of comfort concerning them? After we die, we will give an account of our lives on earth, down to specific actions and words (2 Corinthians 5:10; Matthew 12:36). Given our improved minds and clear thinking, our memories should be more, not less acute concerning our past lives on earth. Certainly

God alone is omniscient. God sees clearly and comprehensively. In Heaven, we will see things with clarity (1 Corinthians 13:12). But we will never see comprehensively. We will know much more than we do now, but we will never know everything because we will never be God. In Heaven we'll be without flaws, but not knowing everything isn't a flaw. It's part of being finite. Angels don't know everything and they long to know more (1 Peter 1:12. They are flawless but finite. Shouldn't we expect to long for greater knowledge, just as angels do? We'll spend eternity gaining the greater knowledge we'll seek. God puts us in the heavenly realms "in order that in the coming age he might show the incomparable riches of his grace" (Ephesians 2:6-7). This means that God will be revealing himself to us throughout eternity. That seems to clearly indicate we will learn in Heaven. When we enter Heaven, we will presumably begin with the knowledge we had at the ti

We will live for eternity as finite beings. God, who is timeless, can accommodate himself to us by entering into time, but we cannot accommodate ourselves to timelessness because that is a condition to infinity. The phrase "and time shall be no more" comes from a hymn, not from the Bible. Revelation 8:1 speaks of "silence in heaven for about half an hour." Even the presence of music in Heaven implies time, because meter, tempo and rests, all of which are intrinsic to music, are time related. Songs, like conversations, have a beginning, middle and end. Some people point 2 Peter 3:8 as evidence that time is suspended in Heaven. But that verse refers to God, not humans. When it says, "With the Lord a day is like a thousands years and a thousand years are like a day," it is speaking of God's infinity. He exists outside of time and space, but we don't. He created us to live in time and space, as finite creatures. Heaven clearly enters into the sequen