Does Eternity in Heaven Sound Boring? Watch this... w/ Dr. Peter Kreeft 

The moment right after I swallow the Holy Communion is when, for a brief moment, I feel that endless joy that I hope is what heaven is like. Nothing in this World can even come close to that moment.

Heaven is something so far outside our frame of reference that it defies analogy; human language even fails the saints who have been granted a glimpse. But I'll trust whatever God has planned for us. He would not have gone through the trouble of redeeming us from sin and death if He didn't want something better for us than we can ever conceive of in this life. "For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known."

Pope Leo XIII saw the Church on the edge of a crisis and presciently warned that because men do not think enough about the next life that they were difting. That focal point of man's spiritual focus was slipping and becoming off kilter. Conceiving heaven as boring and sinking our claws into the world - desperate not to leave before (what we think is) our time - is one of the most harmful attitudes. It pulls us into worldliness and allows us to implicitly believe Our God is not all wise or all powerful. We believe that whatever is in the world beyond can't be as good as a relationship with that woman or man that we desire, a holiday in that location we love and covet. It's silly. Our God is a God of the rivers and the fish, the deer and the forests, the mountains and the eagles, of explosions of colour and the cosmos, of sunlight draping stone walls in gold and the quiet serenity of the gentle breeze, of Allegri and choral splendour, of philosophy and a profound intellectual debate among friends, and the invigorating and exciting, of adventure, of banquets and dinner parties, of appreciatively being moved to the core by the loving actions, words, or intentions of another towards you, of gratitude - and yes, as Dr Kreeft says - even of coffee. And (I cannot stress this enough) much more which is good that we do not yet know. Heaven will not be boring. It may sometimes be hard to conceive. This is natural. You've never been there. You've never been anywhere close to it - where the veil between us and the infinite and majestic God is completely lifted and both our smallness and God's immense love is made manifest. But for example, even doing something like going for a swim would be done in a great act of exulting prayer in heaven, beholding the beatific vision, as part of the celestial court and choir, amongst your beloved friends, old and new, brothers, sisters, and family - with an infinitude to explore, other dimensions to learn of and potentially enter, and new ways to love.

“I don’t look forward to heaven like I do for coffee in the morning” “But you do! Coffee will Coffee-er” C.S. Lewis AGAIN! In the final book of Narnia when they in effect go to Heaven, The True Narnia is there, it’s more Narnia than Narnia, and England is more England than here. All that is Good is there, only more so. Nothing Good is lost. Oscar Wilde’s “The Happy Prince” also is about this fulfillment. Our Lord promises this entering, this fulfillment.

Every Saturday I read Revelation 21 and 22, the last books of the Bible. They give gorgeous descriptions of heaven. I love it and it helps me long for heaven.

5:13 - 5:40 I know my desires are stupid, shallow, and fallen, so I don't long for the fullfilment of ALL my desires, I long for the purification of my desires. - Dr. Peter Kreeft Such a powerful statement, he really shows a strong sense of self-awareness. Our human desires, fantasies, will never satisfy our souls but the desire and effort needed to do God's will most certainly will ❤

As a Catholic, I always tell myself that it doesn't matter if Heaven makes me happy. It's what God wants. Besides, we'll have eternity to have hope we'll be happy. That said, I kind of do long for Heaven like the way one "longs for Austria." I've never had friends, don't really get along with my family, and even work isn't easy for me, especially due to health reasons. Heaven is my only chance to have someone to talk to.

I'd like to meet Dr Kreeft in heaven one day & see his joy. There might be ferrets too 😅

Spending eternity at peace exploring paradise with the angles, saints, family, friends, and the holy family. Sounds a lot better than burning and having demons violate me, rip me to pieces for all well never feeling gods love for all eternity.

"coffe will be coffier". Two days ago The Lord, gifted me with a small foretaste of what Heaven is like. I was heading back home while praying the Rosary. At some point I gazed on a three; it's leaves were being gently shuffled by a kind breeze and pierced by the sunlight. Suddenly I've experienced all the good things of my life and I've felt stabbed by a profound, delightful and all encompassing sense of deep, sweet, nostalgic joy, which stayed with me for few minutes. It was truly amazing, I wouldn't be able to compare it with anything I'd ever felt

Matt is slowly slipping into a Solomon moment, literally becoming too smart for his own good. Heaven is real and not just a concept in your head, and you should be filled with joy thinking of seeing the Lord Jesus Christ. Jesus is my sweetheart, and I await the day I see Him every day.

Matt, stay honest! Love your vulnerability and honest commentary!

I look forward to being with Jesus and His Holy Family the most, but I also look forward to seeing all the people God used on my journey Home, to keep me going on the Narrow Road Home 🙏 I so much long for all of them to get to meet each other, because they all were much needed in my journey Home, and God put them in my life for this purpose. I'm forever grateful for these special Souls ☝️🙏 Viva Cristo Rey It's going to be the Party you don't want to miss 👍😁🙏 Wisdom 13:1-9 ☝️😁

I long to have a glorified body so i can live without being subject to temptation and sin and failure. That's why i long for heaven.

We were made for heaven. We are also a disordered mess, hence God and His Grace must order and redirect us to this final end.

A blaze and a praise of glory, wherever I am that is where I want to be, in Heaven, on earth, wherever.

I'm LDS. I very much look forward to Heaven! I will love serving God and helping Him build His kingdom however He directs. It'll be a place of joyful relationships, endless learning, and fulfilling, satisfying work. 💛

PLEASE help! Considering moving to Steubenville!! if you respond to this, it will be greatly appreciated. I feel that now is the time for many people to truly consider moving from their current location. And I really believe that you and your wife were called to do the right thing during these times.

I didn't think about Heaven much at all until one day, when I felt God's love in a dream I had. In that dream, I was in some version of paradise. I was a little kid collecting shells in a shallow, warm, sandy stream. I felt God's love. It was OVERWHELMING, like a crushing hug from the inside, getting stronger and stronger until I literally couldn't think or breathe, just enjoy it. I know my family loves me, but this was immense, colossal love, all concentrated inside me. Something - for a lack of a better word - indescribable. Now I long for the day I'll feel it again. It's my motivation to be the best person I can be.

I am LDS. I look forward to Heaven as a place of joy, love, learning, and finally complete understanding! I expect to work there, too, assisting God to continually build His kingdom however he directs, and that will bring incredible joy and satisfaction, too.

Heaven is the eternal consummation of the marriage between Christ and the Church. This is what we’re created for. This is the ULTIMATE longing of the human heart.

😂 The yawn at the end cracked me up.

You should long for heaven because God's there. You get to finally meet and hang out with him and everyone there.

So the same apologia for "Will Heaven be boring?"- 1. "We'll be changed so we'll enjoy the 'purified' desires we have being met for all eternity" and 2. "Just shut up and trust God"?

I'm fascinated that his concept of heaven has coffee but not sex

I have pondered this wouldn’t it get boring like being with a friend for 2-3 days your like uh I’d like to be alone for awhile, however Christ is heaven no one will ever comprehend it awesome

In the Book of Revelation at end there is reference to a new earth, a new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven, where God will dwell amongst His people.

I love Dr Kreeft ❤

I love John Eldenredge’s idea of heaven. You should have him on.

God showed once in my suffering…what my destiny is in Him, I yearn, pine, long for Heaven. Every day ….i think of that transformation.

It's funny how much this really resonates with me as a Catholic. I understand when Matt says he doesn't look forward to Heaven because it's almost like you need the challenges we face here on earth, something to constantly overcome. It's like this: we play a hard videogame and its the challenge of having to get better that makes it so satisfying. Imagine the same video game where you start the game and your character is at full levels in everything, has unlimited money, starts with the best weapons and armor in the game and can't even be dealt damage. The game might be fun for a moment or two but it would quickly become the most boring game ever played and there would be no point to even playing it because there's no longer any challenge to face. I think maybe we view heaven in this way, as the game with all the cheat codes where you spawn in and there's no damage, no obstacles to overcome, no learning curve. For me, this is the dilemma I face when pondering Heaven. Kreeft himself mentions out of the pain we experience greater joy. It's almost as if you can't have one without the other so the absence of the pains and learning curves in Heaven make it seem like it will be a boring eternal existence. Not that that's what I believe because God is so much more than I could ever hope to comprehend but hopefully what I said makes sense.

Its not just about heaven. I long to be with Jesus, the one I love and desire to worship and make happy if that's a possiblity and give all I am to forever.

The Fountain of Youth industry is alive and well..amen

Theo-illogically stating ... if Lucifer sinned while he was in heaven ... and was then booted down to hell ... what makes you think that if you offend the same god while you are in heaven ... that he won't decide to boot your soul down to the same hell where Lucifer now resides? Thankfully … now that hundreds of members of clergy of various religious “persuasions” are leaving religion behind ... there is hope for everyone. From the book ... Apostle to Apostate: The Story of the Clergy Project … authors … Catherine Dunphy, Richard Dawkins When you are reared to think of your faith and its leaders as infallible, dissent can be an unsettling thing. This is particularly true for clergy, who have devoted their lives to the subject of faith. I therefore especially hope that this story reaches those clergy who have yet to articulate their doubts. As they struggle through this process, I am thankful that they can look to the Clergy Project as an example of community and humanism as an example of good. As former clergy who have left churches of every denomination, synagogues, mosques, convents, monasteries, and theological institutions, we stand as examples of the reasonableness of doubt and its thoughtful conclusions. I cannot help but think that we offer a compelling voice for why science and secularism do a better job than religion and superstition of answering the so-called ultimate questions.

Once, I had an epiphany about Heaven, and I don't believe I came up with my own mental faculties. The epiphany was that everything in Heaven is meaningful. I was thinking about Lord of the Rings at the time, and comparing Middle Earth to our own horrible secular grimdark world. In Middle Earth, you get the impression that everything has significance, every person, every place, and every action plays a role. When you go to places in America, it's insignificant, even if it was a battlefield, because we don't care. Nobody owns them. These places have no culture apart from the commercial, and while there is history, nobody really cares to know them because America is not a nation with a history worth knowing (I'm being a bit facetious, but consider how the world has no meaning for our younger people - they do not care about the history of a shopping mall). You go to Europe, and every place has history that goes into the times before Christ. But even there the Americanism is wearing away at the meaning of these things and the connection we have to the past. In Heaven, everything matters. In Hell, nothing does.

“But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God, then to wait until his enemies should be made a stool for his feet. For by a single offering he has perfected for all time those who are sanctified.” (Heb 10:12-14.)We are only sanctified when the work is finished. Being sanctified and being consecrated means being willing to accept that God's work in us will only be completed if we keep on following, and accepting the crosses that come to do the work of purifying us for heaven.

When it comes to Catholic social teaching and social justice, Peter Kreeft lacks a lot of depth, in fact he's not that insightful in that area. However when it comes to theology and spirituality he's brilliant and incredibly insightful. Everything he says makes me want to meditate. We should all be contemplatives in our every second of our lives, thinking about the works of God.

Eye has not seen, ear has not heard what God has prepared for those who love Him.

Bernard Shaw said the only interesting person in Heaven is Mozart.

If you want a glimpse of Heaven read about the seers of Marian appearances. Remember these are only glimpses.

Matt why do you push the hallow app?

Advice: if you want to make a segment about the goodness of heaven and how we should look forward to it, don’t begin by talking about how there’s no sex in heaven.

Imagine having a philosophy class with Kreeft and a psychology class with Peterson

I don't think eternal life is all it's cracked up to be. Living forever sounds spooky, especially as no one has a clue as to what it's all about. Eternal rest sounds more appealing.

4:25 “god is the greatest lover… the greatest everything.” So, that would mean the greatest torturer, the greatest bully, the greatest psychopath, the greatest liar, etc -

“Heaven is a celestial North Korea” - Hitchens

No one has the slightest idea what heaven would be like at least not really . Its funny we know little about hell and less about heaven, but we do know about purgatory...its like the dmv

Hopefully heaven is finished John 14:3 He goes to prepare a place for us...Once we are judged we can rest. We have to lose the hate, envy, greed, malice, covetousness now to be burden free at judgment. Evangelise, Evangelise, Evangelise. Imagine you had one room for each person you witnessed too. Some will have a one room🤣🤣🤣 and some will have mansions.

Change word God back to Love. It’s a faster ticket Home that is closer than you can possibly imagine. But it’s not an image. Remember it’s not of this world. None. Nothing resembles it. You gotta die to all that you now know and bingo. But don’t wait to till you dry up. It’s here. Kingdom is at hand. Very close.

Heaven is not the Eternal resting place. We were made for the Earth. Heaven are being made one through Christ. Nowhere does scripture ever present spending eternity whatsoever in Heaven.

Coffee in heaven? Do they do decaf? And if you drink too much do you get palpitations? I hope there’s whisky there, too. And cigarettes.

There is not coffee in Heaven,.. kingdom is not of this world. At all!!! None. Zero!!! It’s not like time space at all.

I can't wait for you tp debate atheists and show empiric evidence of God.

I had a moment with God and told him I did not want to have a mansion I would rather have a beach house and a tiki bar listening to Jinny Buffet smoke heavenly cigars and drink, heavenly whiskey

Apologies to Lewis, but if I am not married to my husband in heaven and he is no closer to me than everyone else there, then that place would be hell. Not to mention the memories of all of the people I loved who aren't there because they believed in the "wrong" or no religion. How could anyone have a moment of bliss thinking about his/her child, spouse, sibling, parent, etc who must now endure eternal torture for thought crimes? This makes no sense and is sadistic. Sorry.

Heaven is not my home but this world redeemed is!

Do we really want perfection in Heaven? I love coffee, but without a bad coffee, you will never taste and enjoy the good one. The coffee i want is the one someone is doing their best to give me. With regard to sex, it was the greatest poison to man's soul ever let loose on man. Look at history or the bible; it has crippled God's every attempt to salvage this mess.

How the hell can anyone know what heaven is like?

Words, theories,...no evidence.

I deny Jesus

Read the Bible, NO ONE GOES TO HEAVEN !

I think the problem is that we’re all taught how hard it will be to get to Heaven, while it’s easy to go to hell. We understand suffering because we live that every day while joy is fleeting. Heaven is incomprehensible to many or most of us