tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post620622688934661484..comments2024-03-26T04:24:11.094-05:00Comments on Strawberry-Rhubarb Theology: What is the final, permanent state of God's people?Dane Ortlundhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17583355241279798089noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33057643.post-34920253673882438322011-05-17T03:18:13.877-05:002011-05-17T03:18:13.877-05:00Dane
Can't agree that new creation is Eden re...Dane<br /><br />Can't agree that new creation is Eden restored. Yes there is continuity but there is significant discontinuity. And it is the discontinuity, the 'change' that gets the most emphasis in the NT.<br /><br />New creation is glorification. Glorification is much more than Eden restored. Jesus in resurrection and ascension is much more than Jesus in incarnation. He now has a humanity that can exist quite happily in a non-physical place. I am not saying that new creation will be non-physical (Christ is physical) merely that we cannot easily compute what new creation will be. Eden had a man and woman married. There will be no marriage in new creation and all will be as the angels in heaven.<br /><br />There is a growing trend to make new creation not much more than old creation restored and it fails to do justice to the 'change'.<br /><br />Incidentally Rev 21 (a picture of course) does not say the New Jerusalem came down to earth (as is sometimes asserted) but that John saw it 'coming down out of heaven from God'. Here is a people/culture whose origin/life/character is sourced in heaven. At the very least this should stop us imagining the new creation in too this-worldly a sense.John Thomsonhttp://johngreenview.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.com