I think in Heaven we will continue our
journey to become more like the Father, we will have an eternity to
work on it, so maybe “someday” we'll get pretty close. So, does
this mean eventually there will be a bunch of identical creatures
occupying Heaven? If so, then what was the point of our experience
while on earth, of giving us each unique DNA, of creating us with
different strengths and different weaknesses, of allowing us to
experience different joys and different sorrows? If he wanted
sameness, I think he would have bypassed earth and just created us
ready-made, purely spiritual beings.
Rather than becoming more and more the
same, I think that though some aspects of us will do that, we will
actually become more different and unique. Because though we may all
be becoming more and more like our Father, our Father is so complex,
so “huge” a being that we will never become “large” enough to
encompass this vastness. Our experiences, our DNA, our uniqueness
puts us more in tune with some particular aspect of God which we
better understand than any other being and through eternity we will
better come to personify that aspect, and in so doing become more
unique and different than the beings around us who are better
learning to personify some other aspect of God.
A part of why I think this way is the
image of us, as a whole, as the Body of Christ. Each of us are a
part. I am the left earlobe, you are the right eyelid. Given eternity
I will never be the whole body, you will always be a part of me as I
am a part of you. We will grow, we will change, I into a better
earlobe and you into a better eyelid. Together, all together, we will
come to look more like Christ and our Father. We will continue to
learn to function as one, to share what we experience of heaven and
God but I think we will forever remain different parts.
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