Our Readers Ask . . . Will Everlasting Life in Paradise Be Boring?

 The Bible/God offers the hope that we can live forever in Paradise on earth. (Psalm 37:29; Luke 23:43)  Will living endlessly in a perfect environment become boring?

That is a worthwhile question. Researchers have found that chronic boredom may cause a person to become anxious, depressed, and prone to taking risks. Those who see no purpose in life or who tire of their daily routine succumb to boredom. Will the lives of those in Paradise lack purpose?  Will the daily routine  be dull?

First, consider that it is Jehovah God, the Author of the Bible, who makes the offer of everlasting life.  (John 3:16; 2 Timothy3:16) God's primary quality is love. (1 John 4:8) Jehovah loves us deeply and has give us all the good things that we now enjoy. - JAMES 1:17. 

Our Creator knows that in order for us to be happy, we need purposeful work. (Psalm 139:14-16; Ecclesiastes 3:12) In Paradise, workers will not feel like insignificant clogs in some massive machine. The work they do will directly  benefit them and those they love.  (Isaiah 65:22-24) If you had interesting, challenging, full-time work to do, would you find life boring?  

Note: This work being talked about is the work of people building their own home, plant and eat from their own garden, drink from their own fruit trees, pure water from their resource, or drink from their vineyards etc.  I am not exactly convinced of this as yet, as the Bible does not go into anymore detail on that or the fact of what we do after everything is planted or build. Or the fact of anyone working at all. My feeling and it could be wrong; is that after everyone who has worked their entire lives for employers that believed that there should be no outside activities or family in which to go home to, but work 24/7, should not die and start over, with exception of being perfect this time and not living in a house that someone else built and eating what we plant etc. Do you know what I mean? But the fact that we will perfect and have a new body and see either all of most of our family back alive, may make us feel more alive and want to do this.  Being perfect, with no pain, sickness, disease of any kind, no wars, no wickedness and no human government.  Just God's government. That is more appetizing to me than this world right now that is so wicked, corrupt, immoral, greedy, ungrateful, disrespectful etc.

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