WHAT MANY PEOPLE ASSUME ABOUT HEAVEN

Non –Earth
Unfamiliar
Disembodied (Plato’s teaching)
Foreign (utterly different from the home we know)
No time and space
Static, unchanging
No art, culture, or progress
Neither old (like Eden) nor new and earthlike: just unknown and inhuman
Nothing to do but float on clouds and strum harps: old life and relationships forgotten
Instant and complete knowledge, no curiosity: no learning or discovery
Boring
Inhuman: no individuality: desires lost
Absence of the terrible (but the presence of little we desire
Story over


WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT HEAVEN

“the renewal of ALL THINGS” Matthew 19:28
New Earth
New, and old improved
Embodied (resurrected)
Home (all the comforts of home, with many innovations)
Time and space
Dynamic, developing
Art, culture, and progress
Both old and new, familiar and innovative: nostalgia and adventure
God to worship and serve: friends to enjoy: a universe
An eternity of exciting learning and discovery of God and his creation
Fascinating
Fully human individuals: desires fulfilled
Presence of the wonderful (everything we desire and nothing we don’t)
Story continuing forever


**the above summary is taken from 50 Days of Heaven by Randy Alcorn