Since I provided some links about hell in the last post, I figured we should balance this with a healthy perspective on heaven. The most comprehensive work done on heaven comes from Randy Alcorn in a book entitled, you guessed it, Heaven.In the book, he addresses all the common questions and many not-so-common questions about heaven, such as:
- Is Heaven a realm for disembodied spirits, or a physical place where we'll have bodies?
- Is there a difference between the Heaven we go to when we die and the Heaven we'll live in after the resurrection?
- Won't it get boring? What will we do? Will we work? Rest? Play?
- Will we be the same people? With the same personalities and emotions? Will we become angels?
- What will we look like? What age will we be?
- Will we eat and drink?
- Will there be a continuity between our past lives and our future ones? Will we remember our old lives, family and friends?
- Will there be races? Nations? Earthly civilizations?
- Will there be culture? Art? Music? Sports? Entertainment? Technology?
- Will we laugh, celebrate and have fun?
- What will it mean to reign with Christ?
- What kind of rewards will there be? If some have greater rewards than others, will they be happier?
- Will there be animals? Might our pets be there?
- Will we be married and have families? Will we have sex?
- Will we be capable of sinning? Could there be another fall?
- Will we be able to meet and talk with past historical figures and Bible characters?
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