Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!bcm!dimacs.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: kriz@skat.usc.edu (Dennis Kriz) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: The community of heaven (Re: Unforgiveable Sins) Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 08:38:23 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA Lines: 28 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In my mind related to the question of "unforgivable sin" is the whole question of what heaven is going to look like. Consider if someone rejects or intentionally does harm to someone in this life. Now both people are dead, and Christ sees nothing particularly "unforgivable" with either, but there's a lot of unresolved pain left between the two. The person wronged actually has it easy ... presumably he/she has acquired over his/her life on earth a forgiving nature (or else he/she wouldn't be in there to begin with). But the other is left with the guilt of having harmed this person in this life and now face to face with him/her with Christ's arm over this person's shoulder... Perhaps we really can't fix all the wrongs that we may have committed in this life, but we can at least pray for the well-being of those we had mistreated (when we were not so "wise"). Trying to guess how "the community of heaven" would work, or how these kind of INEVITABLE encounters at the "banquet" or "wedding feast" would play out ... is actually quite fascinating to me. Anybody with any ideas?? dennis kriz@skat.usc.edu