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Aug 18, 2024 · The idea of heaven and of hell are unique and personal to each of us. Are we really meant to believe that the Biblical symbology describes a literal, physical place?
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In referring to “heaven,” I’m just using the common shorthand term for everything a Christian experiences after the death of our fallen bodies, from the intermediate state (2 Corinthians 5:8) to the resurrection of our bodies (John 5:28–29) and the new creation (Romans 8:18–21) — everything we anticipate in “the age to come” (Luke 18:29–30). In one...
Lewis calls this core desire “the secret signature of each soul, the incommunicable and unappeasable want, the thing we desired before we met our wives or made our friends or chose our work, and which we shall still desire on our deathbeds, when the mind no longer knows wife or friend or work” (152). This “unappeasable want” is a daily experience f...
We hear this desire for God throughout the Psalms, especially ones that express the broken emptiness of earthly cisterns: We hear this in their declarations that “a day in [God’s] courts is better than a thousand elsewhere” (Psalm 84:10) and that God was their “exceeding joy” (Psalm 43:4). We see this desire in the prophet Moses, who “considered th...
Few have seen the Heaven of heavens as clearly from Scripture as Jonathan Edwards: This does not devalue the shadows, the scattered beams, the streams of this world. Every good gift comes from God (James 1:17). The gift of himself, however, is what gives every other gift its inestimable value in the first place. They only devalue when separated fro...
Dec 22, 2020 · A biblical theology of heaven begins in the first verse of the Bible: God creates “the heavens and the earth.” While “heavens” often simply refers to the sky (Gen. 1:20), throughout Scripture it also refers to God’s holy realm, his special abode populated with righteous angels (Ps. 2:4; 1 Kings 22:19).
Jul 5, 2024 · Twice in three verses, Jesus calls heaven a place. He means that heaven ("my Father's house") is a real place, as real as New York, London or Chicago. The place called heaven is just as real as the place you call home.
Jul 23, 2024 · Heaven is where good people will spend eternity. The scriptures make clear that there is no one who is good enough for heaven (Romans 3:11-12; Psalm 14:3). Any righteousness that we think we have is like a “filthy rag” (Isaiah 64:6) when held up to the standard of God’s incomparable holiness.
Experiencing Heaven on Earth means being spiritually connected with God. This means that we are physically here on Earth, but spiritually we are connected to Heaven through salvation. By accepting Jesus Christ as our Lord and Savior, we begin to experience Heaven on Earth.
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Apr 11, 2022 · How does the Bible describe heaven? The Bible describes heaven as a beautiful, perfect place where there is no pain, suffering, or sorrow. In heaven, we will be reunited with our loved ones who have passed away, and we will live in complete bliss.
