10-24-2021, 08:38 PM
I've thought about this answer a lot, since I was very young. Any answer we come up with here won't work, since our surroundings and ourselves will be very different, but one thing to mull over is that we'll be as we are now, but in a much more "pronounced" state. We will still be able to do the things we do here that appear to be unique to our existence: perceive, conceive, rationalize, symbolize, hypothesize, but since we won't be corrupted with fallen bodies, we'll be able to do it "perfectly" (whatever that could mean).
As far as what the actual place will be like, I'm not sure. We might be too focused on taking in God's glory to really care, but that's putting it too simply, perhaps. Heaven as an actual place where we could reside is a creation, but we could think of it as a perfect creation, though different in some ways from what Eden was, and obviously much different than what we ended up with here now. What if the "place" or substance of heaven and heavenly things is so imbued with God's glory that we are unable to separate the two? As in, if heaven is a place and there are creations in heaven (like us, angels, who knows what else), they'd have so much of the identity of the Lord in them that we'd perceive it as all mirrors of God, reflecting Him back at us in their singular way?
As far as what the actual place will be like, I'm not sure. We might be too focused on taking in God's glory to really care, but that's putting it too simply, perhaps. Heaven as an actual place where we could reside is a creation, but we could think of it as a perfect creation, though different in some ways from what Eden was, and obviously much different than what we ended up with here now. What if the "place" or substance of heaven and heavenly things is so imbued with God's glory that we are unable to separate the two? As in, if heaven is a place and there are creations in heaven (like us, angels, who knows what else), they'd have so much of the identity of the Lord in them that we'd perceive it as all mirrors of God, reflecting Him back at us in their singular way?