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- Because Jesus was raised from the dead. No resurrection means no hope, and therefore no heaven—it’s that simple. If Jesus was contained by death, then we will be too; if he cracked the death barriers, then we will too.
- Because God is a God of promise who is faithful to his promises. If you read very far into your Bible, say thirteen or more chapters, you will discover the Promise of all promises.
- Because the Bible’s view of justice is incomplete without heaven. A third element in the case for heaven is what the Bible means by justice, and here I want to briefly criticize the accommodation tendency of too many Christians today to embrace “justice” as defined by the U.S. Constitution.
- Because the Bible says so. We’ve beaten this drum a few times now, but a few more bangs won’t do us any harm. The case for heaven is made not by trusting in near-death experiences or visions, but by trusting the Bible’s words as trustworthy and true.
Mar 8, 2021 · Spirits without bodies fit Platonism and Eastern mysticism. They do not fit Christianity. Paul says if there’s no resurrection, we should “be pitied” (1 Corinthians 15:19). “We shouldn’t think of the present heaven as if it were our ultimate home.” New bodies and the new earth aren’t our inventions; they’re God’s.
Nov 8, 2024 · Do non-believers go to heaven in Christianity? While Christianity proclaims salvation through Jesus, the Church teaches that God’s mercy may reach non-believers, as salvation can be offered in ways only God understands.
1. How do we know anything about Heaven, anyway? If we had no "inside information," we could only speculate. Fortunately, we have some solid data to build on: divine revelation. I think God wants...
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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...
Do only Christians go to Heaven? Classical evangelical doctrine holds that salvation comes only through faith in Jesus Christ, and that those without such faith will be condemned to hell. A number of texts are typically cited in support of this position.
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Feb 18, 2019 · Millions of people today want salvation and the hope of Heaven, but on their own terms. Christians do not proclaim salvation in any other but Jesus Christ; “for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
