Thinking Cap #6 - The Question: Will You Recognise a Loved One in Heaven?

Well, now that we understand the concept of babies going to heaven, let's try out another "heaven" question. Suppose that your infant does die and go to heaven. The next day, your forty-five year old mother dies and goes to heaven. Sixty years later, you pass away and go to heaven. Will you be able to recognize your infant and your mother that are already in heaven? This question is not what will we look like in heaven, but merely will we be able to recognize our "loved ones" and other Christians (ie. the Apostle Paul) when we get to heaven. As always, opinion is fine, but worthless. Share your scriptural support with your rationale. Your response is due at midnight, February 16, 1995. Pleasant thinking.

This question must have required too much thinking, or most were too busy. In any event, I only heard from Martin Olson and Pat Winters. New "readers" since the last issue include Jon/Kim Brody (church members at KCBT), Owen Workman (Assistant Pastor in Alabama), Lena Markus (College student in Missouri), and Glenn Carnagey (Pastor and Seminary Professor in Minnesota).

For what it's worth, here is the reasoning I would use to conclude that we will know one another in heaven. Not necessarily (and most probably) not in our current form (I Cor.15:44), but nevertheless, we will recognize everyone.

Any one of these, taken in isolation may not demonstrate that we will know those in Heaven; but taken together, they form the strands of a cord which provides us with strong evidence that we will know and be known.

Comments are always welcome. Rest your brain, "thinking cap 7" is on the drawing board.

Pleasant Thinking.
Kent Haralson

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