This is an amazing response to a writing prompt about how there are houses of heaven. Here is the full prompt: “After dying god informs you that hell is a myth, and “everyone sins, its ok”. Instead the dead are sorted into six “houses of heaven” based on the sins they chose.”
NICE. TWIST.
This is the most weirdly, theologically bankruptly, sacrilegiously accurate description of heaven I’ve ever seen.
Because this is the whole point. The point of heaven is not that we don’t sin, or that our desires are fulfilled and our pains and sorrows come to an end. Those are PERKS. Add-ons. Dare I say by-products.
The point of heaven, the reason I desire it, is because I get to be with God. Because I have come to believe that he is better than the fulfillment of every physical desire, and that he fulfills all those desires and invites one to go deeper (atheists: replace “God” with “self-actualization” here, and Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs supports this as well).
And the final and most sacrilegious point: Pride (the belief that one is greater than one really is) doesn’t apply if you’re ACTUALLY the One Than Which Nothing Greater Can Be Imagined, and spending time with us is not a duty to God but a privilege. It is nice for him to have some company, not because he needs it but because he wants it. And as for designing and building one’s own universe — I can’t say we will, but I haven’t ruled the possibility out.
Pride, as I see it is what you make of it. Whilst pride as a sin may be thinking oneself better than you are, it can be satisfaction at accomplishing a goal. In the context of the story it could be creating the best universe you can, then trying to create a better one. It might also involve entering into healthy competition with God and learning how to be better, maybe you can never be better but you can try to close the gap.
In that situation I think I’d have to choose Pride because any of the others would soon pall. If you could move between them it could be good. Drop into Wrath to beat that teacher who was horrible to me and work up an appetite for a visit to Gluttony after which drop into Sloth to enjoy my food coma &c, that would be great.
This is Mormon, I think. They want to go play Sims with their own universe.
Originally, I would have gone with Greed because I could have all the stuff to build and create with. To make things.
When I saw “workbenches”, Pride it was. :]
This is why it’s important to look at ALL the options before choosing.
I don’t get it, please help me in layman terms