The Highway Forums General Discussion Theology Discussion Forum Paradise Regained?

jyeager,

Welcome to The Highway Discussion Board.

I am one who agrees with your conclusion, i.e., the New Heaven and New Earth is not specifically a restoration of the Garden of Eden. Most significant, as you pointed out, is the fact that the New Earth will be populated with those who will never fall nor even have the ability to fall through disobedience. Some other points which I think are salient are:

• The saints will have new "resurrection" bodies, similar to that which the Lord Christ had.
• There will be no marriage
• No disappointments, pain, sorrow, death, etc.
• The saints will be in total harmony and communion with their Redeemer and not just their Creator
• There will be no "Covenant of Works", but one which is all of grace upon grace; i.e., no provisional existence but rather one of a gracious and permanent providential existence

Many have speculated as to what the New Heaven and New Earth will look like. I shall not do so as I am not given to speculation. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" /> What I do know is that it will exceed the glory of the corruptible far beyond what I could possible imagine. <img src="/forum/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

In His Grace,