“...by the way, they have sports in Heaven because those people have gifts.”
Kat, sweety, most of those gifts are past their best-by date. If a passer’s gift is in his hand-eye coordination? His hand is rotting in a casket, his eye was donated to a kid with cancer. In Heaven he’ll only have memories of being a gifted athelete. As will the place kicker, the weight lifter, the diver, the swimmer… Sport would be more like a fantasy football league. Players stats at their peak compared to the other teams’…
“But every sport is played for one person, and the winner in any of these sports are always Jesus Christ.”
Then why play the sport? Seriously, i am really, really good at my job. I can look forward to jobbing in the afterlife so Jesus gets the credit and the glory? Why perform? Why watch it?
“And I’m even going to share this before we go — I was taken to a football game in Heaven...Anyway, he took me to this this football game that somebody was playing. These teams of people who were football players who had a gift for playing it. But you can join in! You can join in these teams and play.”
A pick-up game of the Greatest of All Time…And me. For Jesus to pick up the trophy.
Fuck that.
“This is how they do sports in Heaven. They all went to Jesus Christ.”
Again, how fucking bored would you have to be to try to arrange the perfect date so that Jesus gets laid. That’s what you’re saying. All the glory, the accolades, the bragging rights, are to Jesus.
Who is, by the way, omniscient. So he already knew the score.
“And so it’s a different way to play, but the intensity and excitement is still there.”
But it wouldn’t be, would it? No one really brings their gifts to the afterlife without their bodies. And no one has any hope of further glory in the afterlife, it’s all Jesus’. And there are no surprises. Jesus directs the outcomes.
It would be more like listening to the retirees at McDonald’s every morning talking about their careers.
"All the angels, their guardian angels, are in the stands doing the wave. It’s crazy to think!”
So, i have ETERNITY as the most junior angel in the hierarchy, way below Cherubim, Seraphim, Thrones… And out of eternity, i get one human for 70 years, and then spend eternity cheering his meaningless performance art for Jesus…?
How meaningless…