What Is The Most Tortuous Path Through Space Of A Heavenly Body

How do our souls get to heaven or hell when we die?

Probably get into hot water with this answer. I am sure that the acceptable answers are 1. The soul will immediately be in the presence of God. As God is everywhere, the soul will not have to move in space. 2. We don't know; let God handle it.My musing. (I am hoping that calling this a musing will turn aside some negative responses.) The Apostles are the only people who have written about someone, in their case the Risen Lord, who was observed ascending into heaven. Christ himsef said, “I am ascending to my Father and your Father.” After he raised his hands, he was taken up out of their sight. The old Ascension hymn calls on the faithful to “Praise him as he mounts on high To his home above the skies.”So, I think that all of the pious believers who for twenty centuries imagined that the soul departs from the body and rises through the sky to the Masions of the Lord were correct. I know that after about 1960 the new breed of self-proclaimed and insolent liturgists wanted hyms and liturgy stripped of any idea that heaven was above the sky. (These were the same people who sneered at any elderly widow who came to church and said the rosary or any old person who had a hard time hearing the celebrity-priest and helped himself by reading along with what was being said.). I suspect that the soul rises, is accompanied by the angels, meets the souls of his family and friends who have gone before, and, in the presence of the saints, meets the Risen Lord. [Come to think of it, I have just paraphrased the official prayer of the Catholic Church for the departing soul.]

When you die, would you rather go to Heaven or be able to have another life?

It is probably one or the other whether we like it or not. So it is really a moot question.I personally believe that we live countless lives and are “in school” as we pick up “cosmic” experiences from one life to the next and achieve perfection. We live the consequences on the receiving end of our “mistakes“ that we make in our previous life/ lives. In between, we watch the movies of our mistakes and our successes and how we dealt with having those things done to us in our subsequent lives. How’s that? (Remember — all of the stuff about “streets paved with gold” and “in my father’s house are many mansions” was written into the King James version of the Bible for the very first time when the Calvinists were trying hard to show that their abundant lives here on earth were the result of their being declared by God to be his chosen people. The original KJV was in many ways, the polar opposite of the Roman Catholic Vulgate (version) of this same Bible that was written, in its first edition, during the early Middle Ages when a cloistered monk was held up as God’s perfect Christian. What better way to exemplify this than to flaunt one’s lavish life style as opposed to living in poverty. Never mind that gold has no real value unless one lives in a corporeal (physical) state, as opposed to a spiritual one. Seems as though those King James guys might have been smoking a noxious weed or two?

Is it weird that I would prefer hell to heaven?

What do you think? For that matter, how much do YOU know about hell?Well, let’s see. God never threatened Adam & Eve of Hell. Cain was never warned of Hell before slaying Abel. God never proclaimed the people not saved in the parable of Noah’s Ark, were going to burn forever. The Hebrew Bible, which is essentially the Old Testament, never mentions Hell or eternal torment. It does mention Sheol, which means grave.The King James Bible (KJB) is the one most of us were raised to believe is God’s Word. King James believed in witchcraft and wrote a book on witchcraft prior to his KJB translation in 1611. Good ole King James also oversaw the torture of women. His interpreters substituted Hell for Sheol.Hell is mentioned in the New Testament less than one time per book. The first time Hell is documented was in Babylon approximately 300 A.D. READ THAT LAST SENTENCE AGAIN!If Jesus’ main purpose was to be prevent the world’s population, including the 70 - 90% non-Christian, from being condemned to a torturous fire for all eternity, why didn’t he shout it from the rooftops? Instead, he said, I came that ye may have life and have it abundantly.It appears, when Christ hung on the cross and said, Forgive them Father for they know not what they do, and It is finished, He meant it. Please note that he did NOT say, Well, my part’s done. It’s all up to you now.Most Christians do not even know there are major differences between English Bible translations. Most do not know there are many translations that do NOT contain the concept of a hell of eternal punishment. Here are a few of them: Young's Literal, Rotherham's Emphasized, Weymouth's N.T. in Modern Speech, Concordant Literal N.T., 20th Century N.T. as well as many more.Most have been told since early childhood about hell from people, parents and clergy, who would never lie to them. If you tell people something enough, they tend to believe it. This is the way Nazi Germany brainwashed people against the Jews.Now here’s the kicker….if you don’t believe anything I just typed, research it for yourself.