The differences between Nirvana and Christian Heaven—as it is actually deacribed by church fathers—is only grammatical. Basically annihilationism, coming to rest, doing nothing but experiencing God's unity, which is empty of sensible and imaginative and dianoetic content; —AND their attitudes to this world are also identical: Fallen Creation is all empty, all predation and death and disease and hunger and tiredness, experience of boredom, jealousy, vanity, hate, lust... All arise from what could be called Dependent Origination, I.e. out of absence from eternal and true reality.Fuck both of them —and Islam and Advaita and Stoicism and Kabbalah and whatever else is just a reskin of Ecclesiastes/Gnosticism and its world denial.
Your post is conflating Christianity with mystical platonist Christianity, orthodox catholic belief is that of the resurrected body and the beatific vision of God’s attributes/energies, not His apophatic essence (probably what will be a sort of asymptote that is never reached across eternity) so it’s different than nirvana and better too because it’s ultimately life-affirming. “Heaven” is this earth, these bodies, not a platonic ascent of the soul to neither-perception-nor-nonperception whatever nonsense.
>>25305811Late modernist cope.That you are embodied in heaven is an empty statement since you won't do anything with it, at best you'll spin in a circle as an analogue of your heart's timeless and unchanging intellection of God. There's no running around in heaven, no conversations with friends, no play, no exploration of sense impressions like tastes, no listening to music, no creative artistry—only endless Sunday liturgy at best suspended in space like the stars and angels.
>>25305831What? Resurrection of the body implies all those things. Christianity is fundamentally an affirmation of materiality, there’s a reason the heresiological writers so opposed Gnosticism and christology was so ruthless an arena of debate. It’s kind of ironic you’re calling this modernist when physicality and renewal of this world and this body is so early a belief that it literally precedes the Christ event by hundreds of years in second temple Judaism. You’re stuck in the 3rd and 4th century, and very one-dimensionally at that. Many of the Church Fathers spoke the language of platonism but that doesn’t mean they were platonist. It’s a subtle distinction, and I wouldn’t ever pretend to make these lazy grand pronouncements like this, it’s undergrad-ish.
>>25305916Resurrected body will not be one of 'flesh'.Read any ancient sanctified church farger and all of them describe heaven as what 'we' could only ever describe as pure unending boredom, but they say this with joyous applaud. New Eden won't be like Eden, if anything creation of Eve was the first original fall. For New Creation won't have gender distinctions, no relationships, no pregnancy, no birth. No pollination. No hunt. No sugartooth desire for sweets.Since there is no experience of boredom nothing would ever arise in the soul that would make you do different activities.
>>25305937>>25305916The reality of Flesh is the first noticed attribute of fallen reality. >21 The Lord God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife and clothed them.Resurrected body will be like Jesus in Revelations, brimming bronze lacking all needs—no hunger, no boredom, no anything. Just SSRI deadpan psychopathy enjoying nothing but God alone.
>>25305950>>25305916Cut this off where the cope begins
>>25305974Best evinced with Augustine's, quite homoerotic, saying: “You have made us for yourself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you.”Everything else would be to seek rest in what's not God.>inb4 since incarnation is all in all that means we are god so horizontal interaction with each other would actually be resting in god—and now I can deify literally any activity I personally like warp the entire world into a theophany...A neoplatonic leap not emphasized to by anyone in antiquity, since we can't experience anything that's not fallen.
>perennialistslop
>>25306253Yes, Christianity is perennialslop.
>>25305776Stfu faggot, not Christian doctrine.
>>25305974>CopeWhat? I see nothing in this text that supports your speculations about the nature of Heaven
>>25305776Extremely retarded AND off topic post
>>25305776Annihilationist retard. Read what St Paul says about the New Jerusalem. Stop being disingenous.
