What part of "you" is maintained when God brings you to heaven?

[Noumenon]

If I died, what is kept when I enter heaven? Does God remake my body? Who am I anyways, if not constantly defined by struggle? How can that even be "me"?

Am I not really who God wants me to be in my current form? Am I simply a little part of God?

Or do I need to study more of the Qur'an/Bible?

 

[BigJoeNobody]

If I died, what is kept when I enter heaven? Does God remake my body? Who am I anyways, if not constantly defined by struggle? How can that even be "me"?

Am I not really who God wants me to be in my current form? Am I simply a little part of God?

Or do I need to study more of the Qur'an/Bible?

Soul, Body. Yes, in its most perfect form, any flaws or anything about your body that is not what pleases you will be fixed. You are you, your struggle and life are merely a test to prove to you where your afterlife should be spent, God/Allah/YHWH/The Creator already knows. Your soul was given to you, it defines who you are, your body is merely a reflection of it's being.

I have no way to Judge that, nor is it my or anyone else's place in this reality. Only God knows if you are what he wants you to be. We are told in his word what he wants us to do, and from those actions and submittance to those will, we find life and afterlife to be better and more simple. His word gave you life, to that degree, yes, but you are such a small speck of him that you haven't even diminished his being even a single grain of sand in the Sahara's worth.

Yes, please do, both if it suits you. Personally I think the Quran is more encompassing of important information, but other religious books when read in perspective, make great reads too, however I tend to find myself understanding with the Quran as the base.

I'm obviously coming from an Islamic POV, so hopefully someone else will give their view soon...

 

[Namaste Jesus]

If I died, what is kept when I enter heaven?

According to Christian and Hindu scripture, the soul and spirit inhabit the flesh and remains once the flesh perishes. This being ones true self.

Who am I anyways, if not constantly defined by struggle? How can that even be "me"?

Your experience in the flesh is not necessarily the real you, but the way you react to those experiences is.

Does God remake my body?

Most Hindus believe the soul is then reincarnated while traditional Christian thinking says we're born once to the flesh and that's it. I'm a bit conflicted on that one myself.

Am I not really who God wants me to be in my current form? Am I simply a little part of God?

We are who God wants us to be, but it is up to us whether or not we do as God intended. Yes, in many respects we are a little part of God.

 

[Nick the Pilot]

Hi Noumen,

Our personalities are composed of both higher aspects and lower aspects. Only our higher aspects are taken into heaven. The lower aspects are cast out during the process known as Purgatory. Only when the lower aspects are cast out can we enter heaven.

We do not need physical bodies in heaven.

Regarding our current form, we will continue to evolve, even in heaven.

 

[Thomas]

If I died, what is kept when I enter heaven?

The essential 'you'.

Does God remake my body?

In traditional Jewish/Christian thinking, the body is the manifestation or form of the soul in the physical world. Soul and body are one in that regard. There is a persistent non-Abrahamic dualist influence which tends to see the soul and body as two different things, as if a soul inhabits a body, but this has consistently been resisted by orthodox teaching. There is discussion of 'body and soul' in terms of the flesh and the spirit, but this addresses a subsequent aspect. It's important to grasp the first point first, and then the second accordingly. Sadly this is not often the case.

Who am I anyways, if not constantly defined by struggle?

The struggle is not who you are. The struggle is what you contend with. Why you struggle says more about who you are.

'Who am I?' is a good question, but it should always be regarded in a dynamic sense, or a sense check question, rather than looking for a definitive answer. There is no definitive answer, because our self-knowledge is always insufficient, because we're not a 'closed' entity. When one arrives at the point of saying 'I am ...' all further progress stops.

How can that even be "me"?

Well the struggle isn't you. If the things you struggle against went away, where would you be?

Am I not really who God wants me to be in my current form?

According to every tradition, no.

Am I simply a little part of God?

'I am a little bit of God' is like saying 'I am a little bit pregnant', whereas in both cases one either is, or one isn't. If one is God, then one would know, as God knows ... because one doesn't, it's safe to say one isn't.

Or do I need to study more of the Qur'an/Bible?

Well it never hurts. Of course study without access to commentary is a bit like trying to follow a map, at night, with no lights, no compass ...

 

[Thomas]

Of course, there is the traditional view that to be authentically a person is to be a unity and union of the spiritual and the material, so one could argue that a soul without a physicality is incomplete ... the Hebrews had a word for a disembodied soul, and an un-souled body ... in the creation, God formed man from the earth (evolution) and then breathed life into him and then he became a "living being" (chay nefesh) Genesis 2:7...

If God is Infinite and All-Perfect, then the physical world has its place, and man has his place in it, and that's what a man is ... I fail to see what all eschatalogical projections make no space for the physical, if the world is 'good' or indeed 'very good', in God's eyes (Genesis 1).