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  1. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    C. S. Lewis depicts another source of our misconceptions about Heaven: naturalism, the belief that the world can be understood in scientific terms, without recourse to spiritual or supernatural explanations.
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  2. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    When I speak elsewhere in the book of the multifaceted joys of the resurrected life in the new universe, some readers may think, But our eyes should be on the giver, not the gift; we must focus on God, not on Heaven. This approach sounds spiritual, but it erroneously divorces our experience of God from life, relationships, and the world-all of which God graciously gives us. It sees the material realm and other people as God's competitors rather than as instruments that communicate his love and character. It fails to recognize that because God is the ultimate source of joy, and all secondary joys emanate from him, to love secondary joys on Earth can be-and in Heaven always will be-to love God, their source.
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  3. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    The kingdom of God . . . does not mean merely the salvation of certain individuals nor even the salvation of a chosen group of people. It means nothing less than the complete renewal of the entire cosmos, culminating in the new heaven and the new earth. Anthony Hoekema
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  4. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    Religion professor Albert Wolters, in Creation Regained, writes, "{God} hangs on to his fallen original creation and salvages it. He refuses to abandon the work of his hands-in fact, he sacrifices his own Son to save his original project. Humankind, which has botched its original mandate and the whole creation along with it, is given another chance in Christ; we are reinstated as God's managers on earth. The original good creation is to be restored."74
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  5. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever.
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  6. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    Though the rest of the earth fell under human sin, Eden was for some reason treated differently. Perhaps it had come from Heaven, God's dwelling place, and was transplanted to Earth. We don't know. But we do know this: God came to Eden to visit with Adam and Eve {Genesis 3:8}, which he would no longer do after Adam and Eve were banished from the Garden after the Fall.
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  7. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    God subjected the whole creation to frustration by putting the Curse not only on mankind but also on the earth {Genesis 3:17}. Why? Because human beings and the earth are inseparably linked. And as together we fell, together we shall rise.
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  8. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    The gospel is far greater than most of us imagine.
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  9. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    Inside your body, even if it is failing, is the blueprint for your resurrection body. You may not be satisfied with your current body or mind-but you'll be thrilled with your resurrection upgrades. With them you'll be better able to serve and glorify God and enjoy an eternity of wonders he has prepared for you.
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  10. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    Christ is and will forever remain both God {from Heaven} and man {of earth}. I
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  11. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    Now, in comparison to both Matthew 17 and Revelation 1, it appears that the risen Christ, before his ascension, was not yet fully glorified. If he would have been glorified, surely his identity would have been immediately apparent to Mary Magdalene {John 20:14}, the disciples on the Emmaus road {Luke 24:15-16}, and Peter and the apostles when they saw him on the shore {John 21:4}. Consider
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  12. Randy Alcorn _ Heaven

    Some of the best portrayals I've seen of the eternal Heaven are in children's books. Why? Because they depict earthly scenes, with animals and people playing, and joyful activities. The books for adults, on the other hand, often try to be philosophical, profound, ethereal, and otherworldly. But that kind of Heaven is precisely what the Bible doesn't portray as the place where we'll live forever. John
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