When a person with birth, physical, or mental defects goes to heaven, do they take their disability with them? If they don't, is it really THEM in heaven?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.Really... Really...on Agnostic.com you're asking about heaven... Really?
Drsmash253
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Aug 19, 2018
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My daughter had Asperger’s syndrome and she wouldn’t ‘cure’ herself for anything as she says that it is who she is and she just wants people to accept her. And she’s an atheist but if she did believe in a god, I’m sure she would want acceptance from him/her also.
Vlbaxter
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Aug 19, 2018
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It's interesting: Heaven is not really described well in the bible or other Christian literature or art. It's like Donald Trump's rhetoric, lots of vague promises about how wonderful it will be, but few details. While Hell is portrayed in intimate detail as in Dante's Inferno.
DES32
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Aug 19, 2018
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THERE IS NO HEAVEN......or am I missing something subtle in this question that I am just not getting.?
Marionville
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Aug 19, 2018
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@ARToftheJ Yes, I think I already know that’s what you were about. I often wonder why believers especially the fervent ones are so hellbent on denying women abortion rights. Why do they think it is better to bring a deformed or sickly child into the world? They say they are god’s creation and we can’t interfere with this as it is his plan, and only he knows what that is. Even when the mother knows that the foetus will not survive after or even until birth, they insist that the pregnancy continues. There must be a reason they cry when children are born with crushing disabilities but it’s not for us to know god’s plan for them! These people are without compassion for the mothers and the unfortunate children. Would it not, I argue with the antiabortionists, be better to abort and try to conceive another child, one without defects? Is it not every child’s birthright that their parents should do all they can to make sure they are a fully functioning human baby before bringing them into the world? I suppose that were the hypothetical heaven real, all his creations would go back to their father in the same condition he created them...except some of them may have been improved by man whilst here on earth. Man’s intelligence and ingenuity has advanced medical science to a point where we can improve on god’s defective design in some cases. I wonder if he will be pleased!
It is the same argument with 'normal' people. One gives up his earthly issues. The body with all its senses are gone. No eyes, no ears, no touch, no taste, no smell. If one goes to heaven or hell -- one is no longer human.
xyz123
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Aug 19, 2018
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According to these passages , those in heaven will be given new bodies [biblegateway.com] , [biblegateway.com].
I was just watching a documentary on CRISPR genetic technology and it's implications. They had a woman who had dwarfism on and she posed the question; if there are designer babies, would dwarfism be considered a defect? She didn't believe it was as she came from parents with dwarfism and had children with dwarfism. She was upset that it might put an end to her kind. People who are born deaf may not think they have a disability or something to be fixed. So I guess if there was a heaven, since god supposedly creates us in his own image we are all perfect just as we are, we would have to take our disabilities to heaven, otherwise you'd be messing with divine creation right?
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