What is Heaven?
What is heaven?
Who can provide its definition?
Can man ever find its entrance?
When one part with this word, who
knows what will happen?
Can the parted soul listen?
To the living beings question?
That’s probably something beyond our
explanation.
Who goes to Heaven?
A subject conveyed through various
levels of interpretation.
Some say the good deserves its
entrance.
Some say those who believe in a
certain faith deserve its entrance.
What about those who have committed
countless sins?
Will heaven be benevolent?
To allow entrance for sinners to
make their repentance?
I believe repentance should be
settled whilst living on earth.
If it’s only settled after death,
who knows its worth?
Regardless of my faith in the holy
trinity,
I remain within the realms of moral
geography.
I’m glad we shared the same
ideology.
Adhere to the importance of
morality.
Hence I see the chemistry.
Perhaps I’m just thinking
positively.
Having a heart that loves so
tenderly,
Buoyed by kindness in perpetuity.
I can only pray for you to live
blissfully.
I hope you’ll accept my apology.
I hope we will be friends
eventually.
Consensus ad idem: Exchanging
Agnostic Views on 30th March 2014
Dear Jx,
One of my favourite conversations
with you was when we were talking about religion on 30th March 2014.
It’s not because we both are free thinkers. I was glad that we share similar
views on morality, faith and the belief in doing good. Not many people view
things the same way. Some believe that only chosen ones get to go to heaven
which is bound by the faith they choose. At times they believe that such
‘faith’ invalidates the kind-heart. Since young I’ve disagreed on such views.
How can one have faith in God when one does things that God forbids? Faith is
an action and not simply a word. Repentance does not come by just confessing to
God and asking for forgiveness but truly changing. Hence, allowing wrong-doers
possessing questionable faith to go to heaven and denying innocent and good
people from heaven is a teaching that contradicts morality.
Therefore I truly agree with your
statement, “Believe in doing good to ppl.
Whether I am a believer or not doesn't make me less of a good person if I do
good.” I also agree with your agnostic view to believe that there is a
greater being beyond us when bad things happen so one can attribute it to
causes beyond us. When I said that “I believe people who do good deserve to go
to heaven and that if heaven only belongs to a certain cult I rather not be
there”, you said that I’m like the female version of you. I am certainly happy
to hear you say that. It’s good to know when both minds share a consensus ad
idem. It’s hard to converse with someone who thinks otherwise, usually in a
less philosophical sense, subconsciously lacking empathy. It is also hard to
rationalise with people possessing such narrow-minded views. Hence it’s good that we both have an open
mind to the idea of going to heaven. What heaven is like and who should go to
heaven should not be something for us to define. In my opinion, religion should
promote morality and refraining people from wrongdoings. It should not be for
people to form a cult amongst human beings who all bleed red.
From that conversation I was
attracted to you. You have a great mind and it is an attractive quality to me.
From there on, I was looking forward to meeting you in person. We did indeed
carry on this conversation on our first date over dinner. I remembered telling
you that when I was little, a moral education teacher taught me the chapter on
Genesis in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible. God created the earth in three
days. Mankind came a day after animals. I then asked her about dinosaurs and
she told me that they were created by Satan. Didn’t we both laugh at it?
Nevertheless she is a nice lady, which brought me to another point that it is
hard to disagree with nice people.
I wish we could continue such
conversations together. I certainly enjoy talking to you. I admire you for your
intelligence and diligence; both qualities that make you an attractive person.
I see the merits in you and define you on those grounds. I really missed
talking to you. Every now and then I think of our conversations. Who knows what
we’ll talk about next if we’re still in touch? Perhaps something that only
heaven knows? That’s if heaven really
exists in the first place. I’d like to believe that it exists. It exists for the
kind and good-hearted ones. I’d also like to believe that such people do exist.