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Jul 18, 2020 · Exploring the book of Genesis, Heaven Is a Place on Earth gently but firmly strips away common misconceptions of Christianity and broadens your worldview to reveal the tremendous dignity and value of everyday life.
The Bible describes the first heaven as the atmosphere and clouds that we can see with our eyes. “He did good and gave you rains from heaven” (Act 14:17). Next comes t he second heaven, where God’ s angels and Satan ’s evil spirits engage in
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“You’re not going to heaven.” That captured their attention. “Even if you believe in Jesus, you are not going to heaven.” It was the mischievous pastor in me, des-perate to show how much the ascension matters. “You’re not going to heaven on your own, in yourself, as an independent, free-agent choice-maker. Even if you made the right choices.” While...
All this, of course, is just another way of saying that we ever live from a depen-dent, vibrant relationship with Jesus. We live only in him. We live only out of him and unto him. Jesus doesn’t help us find the way; he himself is the new and living way to God (Heb. 10:20). I can go where he has gone—into intimate communion with his Father—only when...
The ascension establishes how we are to know Jesus right now. As we noted, the ascension of the physical, historical Jesus removes him from our immediate grasp. We cannot simply go and find Jesus somewhere. And yet, it is the same Jesus who was here who has gone to heaven; he is still himself, still enfleshed as God and man. Paradoxically, this wit...
In part 1, “A Theology of Heaven,” I will explain the difference between the present, or intermediate, Heaven (where Christians go when they die) and the ultimate, eternal Heaven (where God will dwell with his people on the New Earth).
Apr 25, 2012 · We all have questions about what heaven will be like. Randy Alcorn helps answer some of these questions by sharing his extensive research on the topic--all from a biblical perspective. His writing will surprise readers and stretch their thinking beyond anything they've imagined heaven to be like.
eternal fellowship with God “in heaven,” conceived as a non‐physical realm, through the medium of a resurrected body. Indeed, this claim does away entirely with the notion of “heaven” as an eternal hope, since this notion is thought to be fundamentally
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