Originally Posted by Hitch
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.

Hitch, we still live in a world in which children die in infancy (indeed, many before they are even born) & very few people yet live to be 100 years old. How does this description apply to the current state of affairs between the resurrection & the final judgement? It obviously does not. We do not yet live in the new heavens & earth.

Kyle

I tell you, this man went down to his house justified.