“Your God Is Like Thanos!”

“Your God is like Thanos”, said a young man at the Tampa, FL International Mall. He was 25 years old, somewhat heavy set, and had medium length brown hair. Minutes before his jaw dropping statement I had approached him and asked my second favorite opening question during an evangelistic outreach which is “Do you believe in any sort of afterlife?” What began as a calm, cordial, and fascinating conversation quickly escalated into something filled with a tension you could cut with a knife! I suppose this is why people say you should never talk about religion and politics. But as a follower of Jesus Christ you kinda have to talk about the religion part.

Is Heaven A Boring Place?

When I asked him if he believed that heaven exists, and if he was going there he said that the concept didn’t interest him much because it seemed boring. “You would eventually get bored and run out of things to discover if you’re in the same place forever” he said. I explained that this isn’t true based on the biblical testimony about who God is and what heaven’s like. Anytime someone says that “heaven will be boring”, “monotonous”, “uncool”, “dull”, or anything of the sort a good place to refer them to is Psalm 16:11 in the Bible. It says,

“You will make known to me the path of life;
In Your presence is fullness of joy;
In Your right hand there are pleasures forever.”

How can someone get bored and run out of things to discover in the presence of a God with infinite power and wisdom? How about when there’s “fullness of joy”, and“pleasures forever” in the presence of this God? This doesn’t sound like a boring place to me! According to Revelation 21:3 God will “dwell among” His people in heaven as well, so believers will be in His presence forever. After explaining this I could sense the tension growing in the conversation. I perceived his question to be more of an excuse, but the excuse was knocked away.

I then began to speak about our position in the sight of a morally perfect God, and how we have all broken His law the Ten Commandments by lying, stealing, looking with lust, having sex outside of marriage, and hating others to which he readily admitted to doing. I then told him about how Jesus Christ came to earth to die on the cross to…