In the same way that bones aren’t included in flesh and blood explicitly, likewise blood isn’t included specifically with flesh and bones, but may be implied.
We will have an eternal perspective, we will know that God has been just in his judgments, and will not be plagued by doubt.
Scripture gives no indication of a “memory wipe” that will cause us not to recognize our loved ones and others we’ve known.
What does the Bible mean by the term “new heavens”? And why is it referred to “heavens” (plural) but then switches to “heaven” (singular)?
How can you say there will be oceans in Heaven when Rev. 21:1 says something different?
Questions about Heaven: Many of these concepts are fleshed out imaginatively in my novels Deadline, Dominion, Edge of Eternity, Lord Foulgrin’s Letters, The Ishbane Conspiracy, and Safely Home. Some are developed in a different form in my nonfiction book In Light of Eternity. All are addressed in my book Heaven.
The Lord Jesus Christ...will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body. (Philippians 3:20-21)
Ancient theologians spoke of the “Beatific Vision,” which meant “a happy-making sight.”
If the New Earth is all the best of the old earth and more, then we should expect it to contain animals. If animals weren’t part of the New Earth, this would seem an obvious oversight. Eden was ruined through sin and will be restored through Christ’s reign of righteousness. All that was part of Eden, and then made wrong through the sin of the first Adam, we would expect to be part of the New Earth, made right through the virtue of the Second Adam.
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