Along the lines of yesterday’s post: I don’t know where in Christian history (or pop culture) we developed such a strong inclination for what “heaven” means.
Case in point: baby angels with flutes and horns, floating white clouds, maybe streets paved in gold, lots of Revelation metaphors, a “place in the sky,” or in the case of (mis?)reading John 14:2, lots of big mansions where everyone is one big happy family with God.
I feel like our imaginations are already biased when we begin to pick up to read the Bible. It would be interesting to do a thorough study of the Bible, looking for specific references to “heaven” or the “new creation,” and compare it to what we thought it was all about. It takes work to un-learn a notion for something and re-absorb something fresh. Does John 14 and John 15 suggest heaven not as a “place set apart in the sky” but rather a state of being in God, and God in us?
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