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What can we say about the new heavens and new earth Will it be in the physical/material realm? Are there varying views in orthodox Christianity on it than say, eschatolology? If so, what are they?

The quote from the prophet;

17For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

18But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create: for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy.

19And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

20There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed.
The context and v20 directly rule out eternity. I think literalism has as good a place here as it does in J 11;26.

The two gratest moments in history were the Fall and the Resurrection. Which brings up the question; Which of these is the greater?


This is my own view but its hardly original, if memory serves its close to Boettner's and Gentry's.


Last edited by Hitch; Sun Jul 10, 2011 5:02 PM.