In a previous post I spent a few hundred keystrokes on the
things of heaven, trying to point out how very ill-equipped the best of us is
to fully comprehend them, even with the aid of the imagery of scripture, since
“No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”
But our inability to fully apprehend everything about heavenly
things is not a license to manufacture any old view of heaven wholesale. The
only reliable source of knowledge about things outside current human experience
is the word of God itself.