Randy Alcorn addresses Ecclesiastes and Luke, and the implications of Jesus saying to the thief on the cross "today you will be with me in paradise." This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class, available at www.epm.org/eternity101.
In your book Heaven I read that we will go to paradise at death, partially based on Luke 23:43 "I tell you the truth, today you will be with me in Paradise." My pastor says that the original does not have punctuation and a better translation may be "I tell you the truth today, you will be with me in Paradise" (with the comma in a different place). What do you think?
In this minute long video, Randy Alcorn answers the question, "Is Heaven paradise?"
At a book signing at Lifeway Christian Bookstore in Beaverton, Randy Alcorn answered a variety of questions. In this clip, he answers the question, "What's the difference between 'Kingdom of God" and 'Paradise' in Scripture?"
Our small group is going through the Heaven Study Guide and I have a question concerning the tree of life being in the current Intermediate Heaven. It was originally in Eden, which has been said to be in Iraq...now nothing like Paradise. Was Eden really there, near the Tigris and Euphrates as Genesis describes and the whole place was “moved” after the fall? Just trying to reconcile that it was originally a physical identifiable place here in our current dimension on this Earth, that is not at all like we picture the walled garden of Paradise where the tree is now located.
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