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rebecca miller

rebecca miller


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Im reading Sex God, by Rob Bell. You can buy it here. The book is short and very well-written. rebecca miller not moved by this book probably needs a few hits off of a defibrillator.

Im not exactly planning to review Robs book, but there may be an idea or two that spur me on to a blog topic. The topic du jour is heaven, earth, and hell. Rob has a few interesting things to say about these even though Sex God is not a book about heaven and hell.

First, Rob is taking something as foundational for his theology that I wish more Christians would as well: that heaven will rebecca miller on earth. In case you have no idea what I am talking about, I am addressing the popular misconception that we are all going to die and go to a far away heaven forever. It is not true. Heaven will only be our home in the in-between time  in between our death and the resurrection of the dead at the end of the age. At that time, we will live on the New Earth (Im omitting variations between pre-millennial and a-millennial views).

There are many implications to a heaven-on-earth view. In the first place, it is a rejection of latent Platonism that creeps into much Christian faith. Plato taught that our bodies are prisons for the soul; souls yearn to be free of material and be free in the realm of spirit. The afterlife is bodiless, immaterial, and not rebecca miller to the pains and difficulties of physicality.

Further, rebecca miller heaven-is-coming-to-earth view of the Bible affirms our bodies, our sexuality, our material selves. Heaven will be full of rocks, trees, rivers, mountains, and hills. There will be grass and sky and cloud. Heaven will be the beauty of earth as it was intended to be without pain, frustration, or death. The beauty we all find in a grassy hill and a blue sky is a picture of the unadulterated joy of heaven on earth.

Rob Bell speaks of this view of heaven-on-earth impacting our rebecca miller of the here and now. Things we do on this earth matter in the New Earth. I love his examples. One is of a couple he knows who adopt unwanted and disabled children:

When Lil got to the point in her story, she reached down and patted her daughter and said, This is Crystal. Shes twenty-seven years old but will be about six months old developmentally for the rest of her life. She cant talk or walk or move or feed herself or do anything on her own. She will be like this, totally dependent on us, until the day she dies. And I love her so much. My family and I, geo tv cant imagine life without her. She makes everything so much better.

What is Lil doing?

Shes bringing heaven to earth.

I also like Rob Bells vision of hell. I have always been a fan of C.S. Lewiss The Great Divorce, and I think I rebecca miller similarity in Robs conception of hell:

Now if there is a realm where things are as God wants them to be, then there must be a realm where things are not as God wants them to be. Where things arent according to Gods will. Where people arent treated as fully rebecca miller

Its called hell.

Think about the expression for the hell of it. When someone says for the hell rebecca miller it, what they mean is that whatever is being discussed was done or said for no apparent reason. It was, in essence, pointless. Random. And God is for purpose and beauty and meaning.

When we say something was a living hell, we mean that it was void of any love or peace or beauty or meaning. It was absent of the will and desire of God.

So heaven is coming to earth and hell is the place where the will and desire of God are absent. Not a bad summary at all.



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