My whole philosophy is this....the meaning of life is death. Hence, the meaning of death is life. You live to die and you die because you once have lived. Life is a circle, not a straight line. There is no beginning, there is no end, There is only the cycle. I believe in a manner of God but not the typical ideology of God. I dont think God is Allah or Jesus or Buddah or Jehova or Yahweh or even a being. God is. God is not he nor she nor it. God is. When I say this I mean everything, the energy it carries and gives off in the repetitive cycle is God. In a way we are all a part of it. Everything is. There is no heaven there is no hell. I think heaven and hell are just the last second of your life. If you are afraid and troubled, your are in hell. But if you are at peace and accepting, you are in heaven. And after that brief second that seems to stretch on into eternity, nothing else matters. And that is it.
Im beginning to think now that the ideal of Heaven and Hell and a God that loves you but will punish you into a firey infenity is just a clever mystery stirred to stabalize and control society and give people a reason to live. Why do you think there are so many similarities between government and religion?
but i guess i doesnt matter...if believing in jesus, budda, or nothing at all gives you that final thought of comforting bliss before you die, then I guess you believed in the right thing your whole life afterall.

Sounds to me like you're almost a buddist.

Nox

How about this
If God is everything then we, ourselves are also a part of God (which has been made seperate for the sake of uninfluenced experience). Perhaps when we die, our consciousness has no body to cling onto, and so we meld with the rest of god and also become 'everything'. This is what heaven could be.
With the kind of wisdom and mental power that god has, he is able to control his thinking into seeing everything as pure exiliarating beauty, and this is why heaven is so unimaginably good.
Jesus saw beauty in so much, and he was wise, so I'm guessing God has the ability to see beauty in everything