Based on the Bible, I believe we are all building our resume for heaven. Much like we built our education, then we go out into the world and take on opportunity, we are also building continually for eternity. Stepping into a new world, our experiential and educational prowess often determines how far we are able to reach. The Bible teaches levels of reward in heaven, as it also teaches levels of punishment in hell. One might acknowledge that someone like The Apostle Paul will likely have higher capacities than someone who just squeaks into heaven, 1 Corinthians 3:9-15. Likewise, one like Adolph Hitler will have a higher degree of punishment, as opposed to a generic pagan who chose to be separated from God for all of eternity. Just a mere 2000 years ago, Jesus Christ stepped into time. He inaugurated His Kingdom, with what the Bible denotes as "the end times". He will return to consummate His Kingdom. Paradise lost, will once again become Paradise restored. Paul writes in Romans 8:22, "For we know that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs together until now. Not only that, but we also who have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body." The re-creation of the cosmos, and the recreation of our bodies, go hand-in-hand. So let us heed that our current earthly lives are preparation for eternity. 1 Corinthians 3:9-15, "For we are God’s fellow workers; you are God’s field, you are God’s building. According to the grace of God which was given to me, as a wise master builder I have laid the foundation, and another builds on it. But let each one take heed how he builds on it. For no other foundation can anyone lay than that which is laid, which is Jesus Christ. Now if anyone builds on this foundation with gold, silver, precious stones, wood, hay, straw, each one’s work will become clear; for the Day will declare it, because it will be revealed by fire; and the fire will test each one’s work, of what sort it is. If anyone’s work which he has built on it endures, he will receive a reward. If anyone’s work is burned, he will suffer loss; but he himself will be saved, yet so as through fire."