Heaven is a renewed earth and it is a physical place, and we are physical there too. We are not disembodied souls floating around on clouds. The idea that our soul goes to heaven when we die is not in the Bible. That`s Greek, it`s Plato, it`s not Jesus. In 1 Corinthians: 15 the Apostle Paul makes a long argument about how we are raised from the dead in the body just like Jesus was. And just like Jesus somehow we will be recognizable as us. This passage says that the nations are present in heaven, and the Greek word there is "ethnos" the word from which we get "ethnic." In heaven we will have our ears, our eyes, even our ethnicity, and the best of our personalities without all the junk. Now some of you right now may be thinking, "Oh man, I have to have my body in heaven? I better lose some weight or I`m going to lug this spare tire around for eternity." Calm down. The Bible tells us that we get a new, perfect body. We`ll never get sick, never grow old, never get hurt, never die. I might even get my hair back - it`s going to be great! I like to think that in heaven I`ll have the body I always wanted to have but never got around to it. So if you`re white here, you`ll be white there. If you`re Chinese here, you`ll be Chinese there. If you play the guitar here, you`ll play the guitar there, only better. And if you don`t like to play the harp, you don`t have to. The only people playing harps in heaven are people who like to play harps here. ''although I suppose you could take a lesson if you wanted to''. Heaven is a real, physical place and we get to be real, physical people.