achi4u: Is this true?

TalkingBird:

Fulfilled prophecies indicate they will surely happen.

For a book that could tell 100's of years before science discovery that the earth of spherical and hangs upon nothing, what else do you think.
The Bible is scientifically accurate. It even contains information that was far ahead of its time. For example, the book of Leviticus contained laws for ancient Israel on quarantine and hygiene when surrounding nations knew nothing about such matters. At a time when there were wrong ideas about the shape of the earth, the Bible referred to it as a circle, or sphere. (Isaiah 40:22) The Bible accurately said that the earth ‘hangs on nothing.’ (Job 26:7) Of course, the Bible is not a science textbook. But when it touches on scientific matters, it is accurate. Is this not what we would expect of a book from God?


A BOOK OF PROPHECY
The Bible contains numerous prophecies, many of which have already been fulfilled. Consider an example. Through the prophet Isaiah, who lived in the eighth century B.C.E., Jehovah foretold that the city of Babylon would be destroyed. (Isaiah 13:19; 14:22, 23) Details were given to show just how this would happen. Invading armies would dry up Babylon’s river and march into the city without a battle. That is not all. Isaiah’s prophecy even named the king who would conquer Babylon—Cyrus.—Isaiah 44:27–45:2.
Some 200 years later—on the night of October 5/6, 539 B.C.E.—an army encamped near Babylon. Who was its commander? A Persian king named Cyrus. The stage was thus set for the fulfillment of an amazing prophecy. But would the army of Cyrus invade Babylon without a battle, as foretold?
The Babylonians were holding a festival that night and felt secure behind their massive city walls. Meanwhile, Cyrus cleverly diverted the water of the river that flowed through the city. Soon the water was shallow enough for his men to cross the riverbed and approach the walls of the city. But how would Cyrus’ army get past Babylon’s walls? For some reason, on that night the doors to the city were carelessly left open!
Regarding Babylon, it was foretold: “She will never be inhabited, nor will she reside for generation after generation. And there the Arab will not pitch his tent, and no shepherds will let their flocks lie down there.” (Isaiah 13:20) This prophecy did more than predict a city’s fall. It showed that Babylon would be desolated permanently. You can see evidence of the fulfillment of these words. The uninhabited site of ancient Babylon—about 50 miles [80 km] south of Baghdad, Iraq—is proof that what Jehovah spoke through Isaiah has been fulfilled: “I will sweep her with the broom of annihilation.”—Isaiah 14:22, 23.
Considering how the Bible is a book of reliable prophecy is faith strengthening, is it not? After all, if Jehovah God has fulfilled his past promises, we have every reason to be confident that he will also fulfill his promise of a paradise earth. (Numbers 23:19) Indeed, we have “hope of the everlasting life which God, who cannot lie, promised before times long lasting.”—Titus 1:2.

blink182: Very true and no one said there is no food in heaven, then you eat because you want to not because you need to.

OP if you think you will really miss earth then you can stay behind, not everyone of the saints will go to heaven. I personally want to inherit the earth, it's what I say everyday. Despite the bible saying there will be a new heaven and earth, the new earth is ignored and everybody wants to enter heaven.

kokabiel: @OP you won't have this fleshly body that requires food to survive, you will have a new spirit body that needs no food

kimond101: "Eat and drink with relish for what you did.(Surat al-Mursalat, 43)

The Qur'an announces that the people of Paradise are blessed with the finest food and various drinks. But since these people require no nourishment, we can understand that such food and drink have been created only to give pleasure.

This food resembles the food of this world. The people of Paradise will express this similarity in the following way:

Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions, that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When they are given fruit there as provision, they will say: "This is what we were given before." But they were only given a simulation of it. They will have there spouses of perfect purity, and will remain there timelessly, forever. (Surat al-Baqara, 25)
Many foods in this world address people's appetites and give pleasure by their appearance and taste. Of course Allah can easily create similar foods in Paradise to give pleasure to believers. But, unlike with earthly food, there will be no need to worry about gaining weight, cholesterol, overeating, and so on, for Allah tells them: "Eat and drink with relish for what you did" (Surat al-Mursalat, 43) Being able to eat and drink beyond any reckoning is a delightfully pleasant reward.

In order to attain Paradise, people are tested in this earthly life. Believers show great effort and zeal in order to please our Lord, for they turn to Him sincerely, thank Him continually, pray to Him, and repent of their sins. As a reward, Allah offers them the blessings of Paradise.

Leading all of the food mentioned in the Qur'an is meat. In Paradise, Allah gives believers "any kind of fruit and meat that they desire" (Surat at-Tur, 22), and will offer them "any bird-meat they desire" (Surat al-Waqi'a, 22). Moreover, their food will "never run out" (Surah Sad, 54), because believers will"enter Paradise, provided for in it without any reckoning" (Surah Ghafir, 40).

They will be able to eat as much as they want, for the amount and types of food available will never decrease, and no one will be forced to stop eating due to being full or feeling sick.

Fruit is perhaps the food most often mentioned in the Qur'an. In Paradise, believers receive whatever type of fruit they desire. The Qur'an describes this:

Its shading branches will droop down over them, its ripe fruit hanging ready to be picked. (Surat al-Insan, 14)

Thus, we understand that fruits of Paradise grow on trees in natural surroundings and that believers can easily pick and eat them. Surat al-Waqi'a 28-29 mentions ""fruit-laden lote-trees with thorns removed" and "[banana] trees layered [with fruit]," meaning that the fruit can be obtained easily due to Paradise's infinite blessings.

The fruit it so plentiful that the tree branches cannot bear its weight, and it is easy to reach because the branches bend down to the ground.

This fruit may be offered freely on golden and silver trays and tastefully designed plates to believers, who are sitting on thrones and conversing with one another. Certainly all seeds and traces of rot and bruising that annoy people in this world have been removed, as befits Paradise. All fruits are offered to believers freely, with their eye-catching beauty and without blemish.

Fruit also adds further color and aesthetic beauty to Paradise. The sight of trees laden with all sorts of colorful fruits lends even more beauty to the wonderful landscape. The predominant color is green, and within that green are yellows, oranges, and reds that form a beautiful view that strikes the human eye. As an indication of Allah's mighty artistry, this view is another cause for thanksgiving.

Certainly, many kinds of drinks are also desirable. For instance, Surat as-Saffat, 45 mentions "a cup from a flowing spring passing round among them." In Paradise, believers are given "the choicest sealed wine to drink, whose seal is musk" (Surat al-Mutaffifin, 25-27). As these verses state, whatever they drink is also sweet-smelling and, of course, this wine is unlike any earthly wine.

The people who drink it will not become intoxicated or have their awareness impaired. Allah says that these drinks will be offered in glasses. They will not cause headaches, a loss of control of themselves, or any alteration in their minds. Young men whom Allah appointed for this service freely offer these drinks."

Reference: http://www.islamcan.com/paradise-jannah/endless-delight.shtml

Solozzo: The concept of heaven and paradise represents man's inner desires for order, peace and tranquility. They emanate from the deep recesses of those who truly desire utopia, but are disappointed by its non existence. We are the only ones who can create this paradise or heaven on earth through science religion and ethics working together. Look at what we've achieved today. To some who lived three thousand Yeats ago this is almost heaven. God had already provided the materials to make heaven here on earth and the brain power to do it. It is up to us to achieve this or suffer and die.

Perhaps after twenty thousand years of development we may be able to say, behold I make all things new, death is no more and a new earth is here.

So my friend OP, u may not be able to eat food after you die but know that after you transit at the grand age 100 healthy years you would be in the dust of the earth and travel with the future generations around the sun, who could live for millennia and enjoy the new world made by man in twenty thousand years time with the help of God given brains and resources. OP, you and and all people on earth today could be said to be the unlucky early birds who would miss heaven on earth, who would be the cold dust oblivious of all pleasures being enjoyed by the future generation, if theymake the right choice to use the resources to create a heaven on earth rather hell on earth. God is super being who gives free choice to all his creatures knowing that the consequences of our choices are there to stare us in the face.

It is up to us if we want to make heaven or hell on earth.

uzobiz: Who said there is no food in heaven? Remember, God fed the Israelites in the wilderness with food meant for the Angels in heaven (manna).

Recoverd: this question no make sense at all..

kokabiel: @OP you won't have this fleshly body that requires food to survive, you will have a new spirit body that needs no food

afam4eva: I wish heaven should have been made to include of the foods on earth. I like food a great deal.

can we also play our favourite sports? Watch TV etc?

Recoverd: this question no make sense at all..

kimond101: "Eat and drink with relish for what you did.(Surat al-Mursalat, 43)

The Qur'an announces that the people of Paradise are blessed with the finest food and various drinks. But since these people require no nourishment, we can understand that such food and drink have been created only to give pleasure.

This food resembles the food of this world. The people of Paradise will express this similarity in the following way:

Give the good news to those who believe and do right actions, that they will have Gardens with rivers flowing under them. When they are given fruit there as provision, they will say: "This is what we were given before." But they were only given a simulation of it. They will have there spouses of perfect purity, and will remain there timelessly, forever. (Surat al-Baqara, 25)
Many foods in this world address people's appetites and give pleasure by their appearance and taste. Of course Allah can easily create similar foods in Paradise to give pleasure to believers. But, unlike with earthly food, there will be no need to worry about gaining weight, cholesterol, overeating, and so on, for Allah tells them: "Eat and drink with relish for what you did" (Surat al-Mursalat, 43) Being able to eat and drink beyond any reckoning is a delightfully pleasant reward.

In order to attain Paradise, people are tested in this earthly life. Believers show great effort and zeal in order to please our Lord, for they turn to Him sincerely, thank Him continually, pray to Him, and repent of their sins. As a reward, Allah offers them the blessings of Paradise.

Leading all of the food mentioned in the Qur'an is meat. In Paradise, Allah gives believers "any kind of fruit and meat that they desire" (Surat at-Tur, 22), and will offer them "any bird-meat they desire" (Surat al-Waqi'a, 22). Moreover, their food will "never run out" (Surah Sad, 54), because believers will"enter Paradise, provided for in it without any reckoning" (Surah Ghafir, 40).

They will be able to eat as much as they want, for the amount and types of food available will never decrease, and no one will be forced to stop eating due to being full or feeling sick.

Fruit is perhaps the food most often mentioned in the Qur'an. In Paradise, believers receive whatever type of fruit they desire. The Qur'an describes this:

Its shading branches will droop down over them, its ripe fruit hanging ready to be picked. (Surat al-Insan, 14)

Thus, we understand that fruits of Paradise grow on trees in natural surroundings and that believers can easily pick and eat them. Surat al-Waqi'a 28-29 mentions ""fruit-laden lote-trees with thorns removed" and "[banana] trees layered [with fruit]," meaning that the fruit can be obtained easily due to Paradise's infinite blessings.

The fruit it so plentiful that the tree branches cannot bear its weight, and it is easy to reach because the branches bend down to the ground.

This fruit may be offered freely on golden and silver trays and tastefully designed plates to believers, who are sitting on thrones and conversing with one another. Certainly all seeds and traces of rot and bruising that annoy people in this world have been removed, as befits Paradise. All fruits are offered to believers freely, with their eye-catching beauty and without blemish.

Fruit also adds further color and aesthetic beauty to Paradise. The sight of trees laden with all sorts of colorful fruits lends even more beauty to the wonderful landscape. The predominant color is green, and within that green are yellows, oranges, and reds that form a beautiful view that strikes the human eye. As an indication of Allah's mighty artistry, this view is another cause for thanksgiving.

Certainly, many kinds of drinks are also desirable. For instance, Surat as-Saffat, 45 mentions "a cup from a flowing spring passing round among them." In Paradise, believers are given "the choicest sealed wine to drink, whose seal is musk" (Surat al-Mutaffifin, 25-27). As these verses state, whatever they drink is also sweet-smelling and, of course, this wine is unlike any earthly wine.

The people who drink it will not become intoxicated or have their awareness impaired. Allah says that these drinks will be offered in glasses. They will not cause headaches, a loss of control of themselves, or any alteration in their minds. Young men whom Allah appointed for this service freely offer these drinks."

Reference: http://www.islamcan.com/paradise-jannah/endless-delight.shtml

Solozzo: The concept of heaven and paradise represents man's inner desires for order, peace and tranquility. They emanate from the deep recesses of those who truly desire utopia, but are disappointed by its non existence. We are the only ones who can create this paradise or heaven on earth through science religion and ethics working together. Look at what we've achieved today. To some who lived three thousand Yeats ago this is almost heaven. God had already provided the materials to make heaven here on earth and the brain power to do it. It is up to us to achieve this or suffer and die.

Perhaps after twenty thousand years of development we may be able to say, behold I make all things new, death is no more and a new earth is here.

So my friend OP, u may not be able to eat food after you die but know that after you transit at the grand age 100 healthy years you would be in the dust of the earth and travel with the future generations around the sun, who could live for millennia and enjoy the new world made by man in twenty thousand years time with the help of God given brains and resources. OP, you and and all people on earth today could be said to be the unlucky early birds who would miss heaven on earth, who would be the cold dust oblivious of all pleasures being enjoyed by the future generation, if theymake the right choice to use the resources to create a heaven on earth rather hell on earth. God is super being who gives free choice to all his creatures knowing that the consequences of our choices are there to stare us in the face.

It is up to us if we want to make heaven or hell on earth.

Danka7777: [b]
Let me start of by saying that: If you asked this question in a developed world, let's say in the U.S, people will laugh at you and think you are uneducated. I am afraid to say a lot of Nigerians still think in this direction.

We have to detox ourselves of the lies that have been told to us for years. There is absolutely nothing like Heaven or hell, nor did the story of Adam and Eve exited. How could we explain that Adam and Eve were created 6000 yrs ago and in 1973 remains of human like specie called "lucy" estimated to have exited 3.2 million years were found in Ethiopia? Who is fooling whom? All these were cooked up stories, carefully put together in a book called the "bible" to lay credence to the enslavement and colonization of Africans. We need to study hard and ask questions.

Have you asked yourself why educated people for the most part, though they believe in the existence of " GOD" but don't believe in the bible or any religion? The answer is simple, they have studied deeply into the bible, historical books and identified so many inconsistencies in it(bible). Africans are still being fooled by these lies and we need to start re-educating our posterity of these lies[/b]

Femmymata2: I will surely miss epl,champiöns league,movies,music video,fine sexy chics e.t.c. I won't trade this for just bowing down daily and telling one all-knowing God that he/she is good. HELL Here i come..

Femmymata2: I will surely miss epl,champiöns league,movies,music video,fine sexy chics e.t.c. I won't trade this for just bowing down daily and telling one all-knowing God that he/she is good. HELL Here i come..

kokabiel: @OP you won't have this fleshly body that requires food to survive, you will have a new spirit body that needs no food

tobechi20:

are u an atheist?
u sound lyk one of those he goats the bible refered to as fools.

U talk as if uve bin to USA wen its certain u havent stepd ur foot outside nigeria except probably in ur dream

if u dont blive in heaven,remain in ur blief but u dont need to laugh at those who do

u would hav simply walkd out of this thread witout comenting. Mttcheeeew:-@

Danka7777:

[b]Typically,I try not to respond to comments that come no where to the vicinity of reason. However, just some few thoughts: Learn the definition of atheist before you use the word. Two: look up my profile before you guess where I live. I thought you ought to be able to guess easily I have lived In the U.S for a while from my writing style and choice of words. Lastly, if you couldn't write in english properly, how do you expect to understand what I wrote? Seriously, did you understand what I wrote down? you really need to work on your writing skills...this is perhaps the most below standard written comment I have read on Nairaland. I have emailed Seun to read your comment and weigh in the possibility of banning you from Nairaland as you are disgracing us Nigerians by writing so poorly and being smugly about it.

One of the biggest problem we have in Nigeria, is some people have no clue of what is being discussed, they have not done any research on the subject matter, what they believe is that which someone mysteriously told us is right, and they believe it so passionately, rather intransigent about it and less amenable to listening to other possibilities with proven well documented research. My homework to you: Go and study about "Lucy" in Ethiopia...This will set the basis for our discussion, otherwise I will be wasting my time with you because you know nothing, absolutely nothing. [/b]