Will there be competition in heaven?

Curiously Kaitlyn

Phil Vischer

Religion & Spirituality

5 • 759 Ratings

🗓️ 7 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Will we have ferocious sports rivalries in heaven? Will we have tantrums over lost card games? Will we play? This week, Kaitlyn and Producer Mike answer the question - Will we have competition in heaven? Along the way, they discuss questions about how we categorize effects of the fall v. natural human limitations, what we can and cannot know about life in eternity, and how our work in this world can become our source of identity and value.

0:00 - Theme Song

1:10 - Not Sinful, but Limited

4:37 - Will We Have Perfect Bodies in Heaven?

6:50 - Different Talents

12:33 - It’s Good to Play!

17:40 - The Bad Side of Competition

20:58 - Do We Need Competition?

25:13 - Quick Kid Answers

27:19 - End Credits

Transcript

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0:00.0	Welcome to Curiously, Caitlin, where we try to make theology make sense.
0:04.9	Each week, we will hear a kid question about God, theology, or the Bible, and find a scholar who can answer it.
0:12.6	I don't know.
0:16.1	That doesn't make any sense.
0:19.1	What?
0:20.5	Curiously, Kate, yeah.
0:23.6	Welcome back to Curiously, Caitlin.
0:27.6	I am joined once again with producer Mike.
0:29.6	Mike, how are you?
0:30.6	I'm doing well, Caitlin.
0:31.6	How are you?
0:32.6	Good, good.
0:33.6	I have been saying for quite a while now I wanted to do this question.
0:36.6	So I think this would be a really
0:38.0	fun one. It is a fun one. It came in, it's funny, this question came in to like our normal mailbag,
0:44.3	to Holy Post podcast mailbag. Someone submitted it. And then suspiciously it came in to the curious
0:50.7	of Caitlin mailbag like a day later. And it just made me wonder if like a parent had it and was like, I'm just going to maximize my chances. Yeah, I'm just going to like sit over my kid while they're sleeping and whisper the question in their ear until they pop it out one morning. Exactly. But it's a good question. So congrats if you're that person. Yeah, we finally did it for you. You succeeded. All right. Here's today's question. Will there be competition in heaven? Ooh.
1:14.3	Ooh. person. Yeah, we finally did it for you. You succeeded. All right, here's today's question.
1:13.0	Will there be competition in heaven?
1:19.6	Ooh. Will there be competition in heaven? Now, as someone who is a big sports fan,
1:24.7	as we're airing this, the Cubs are in the playoffs. You know I had it on TV in the office yesterday. That's the only reason I knew that. Uh-huh, uh-huh. So, like, I feel like I have a vested interest to determining if this question is true
1:33.3	or not.
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