Resources by Topic: Heaven

Many of us habitually think and act as if there is no eternity—or, as if what we do in this present life has no bearing on eternity.

It’s common to hear people say, “We don’t understand now, but in Heaven we’ll know everything.” One writer says that people in Heaven can “easily comprehend divine mysteries. Is this true? Will we really know everything in Heaven?

The present Heaven is completely different than what Catholics believe in as purgatory, as it has nothing to do with punishment or suffering.

Can we really know in advance where we’re going when we die? The apostle John, the same one who wrote about the new heavens and New Earth, said in one of his letters, “I write these things to you who believe in the name of the Son of God so that you may know that you have eternal life” (1 John 5:13, emphasis added). 

Revelation 3:11 says, "Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown."

Let me start by saying: absolutely you are not sentenced to Hell if you know Jesus Christ as your personal Lord and Savior.

The “unpardonable sin” of blaspheming the Holy Spirit is something a believer cannot do.

What does the Bible mean by the term “new heavens”?  Randy’s Answer How can you say there will be oceans in Heaven when Rev. 21:1 says something different? Randy’s Answer

Bodies aren't shells for souls, they're part of who we are. Any afterlife view that denies bodily resurrection is unchristian.

Happiness in Heaven is based not on ignorance, but on perspective. We will be with Christ, see accurately, and live in a sinless environment. Heavenly happiness cannot be based on a fundamental ignorance of what is happening on earth or even in hell.

Someone recently showed me an article from a reputable Christian magazine that stated we will not have physical bodies in the future heaven, based on an (incorrect) understanding of the reference in 1 Corinthians 15 to a “spiritual body".

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.

If even Paul said that gaining Christ made “everything else” seem comparatively worthless, doesn’t that show that Christ should be the treasure we are seeking after?

One day we'll learn of eternal results we never saw on earth.