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Christ did, in deed, pay the penalty for sin; and, the extent of that payment could sufficiently cover every person that ever lived, is living, or will live on the earth. 

I wish we could talk face to face so you could hear my heart for you.

In some passages the bride is the Church.

What about the different “dwelling places” believers will have in heaven (Luke 16:4,9)? What about the treasures Christ commanded us to store up “for ourselves” in heaven (Matthew 6:20)? 

While there may be others we don't know of who God has created or will create in the future, we know the following will be in heaven...

You’re right that my belief in the ultimate authority of Scripture is based not on specific statement, but on the cumulative power of countless passages. (The same is true of the doctrine of the trinity and other major truths.) Among those passages are these:

There are different views of the restrainer of 2 Thess. 2, and a case can be made for two at least. 

Justice is the foundation of God’s throne, and justice was the motivation for our redemptive process. 

Materialism is often a big part of it, but those in it think it isn’t because they give some of the money away. 

Christ promises on the New Earth, “There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away” (Revelation 21:4). 

First Thessalonians 4 says we are to “comfort one another with these words” about being together with the Lord forever. So clearly we will be spending eternity with our loved ones.

I came to Christ in a church that was Arminian, so that was naturally my early leaning. I went to a Bible college and seminary that were both middle of the road where neither hard core Calvinism nor Arminianism often surfaced in class, though on a continuum, some faculty would lean more toward one than the other.

Leave it to a child to ask a great question which has no definitive Biblical answer. Here is what we know.

Satan labors to give people an inaccurate view of heaven.