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Based on the Book of Revelation, premillennialism holds that, following the end times and the second creation of heaven and earth (see The New Earth), the New Jerusalem will be the earthly location where all true believers will spend eternity with God. The New Jerusalem is not limited to eschatology, however.
This eternal life is provided to believers, generally assumed to be at the resurrection of the dead. [7] In New Testament theology, in addition to "life" (zoe, i.e. ζωὴ in Greek), there is also a promised spiritual life sometimes described by the adjective eternal (aionios i.e. αἰώνιος in Greek) but other times simply referred to as ...
Revelation 21:1: A new heaven and new earth, Mortier's Bible, Phillip Medhurst Collection. The New Earth is an expression used in the Book of Isaiah (65:17 & 66:22), 2 Peter (), and the Book of Revelation in the Bible to describe the final state of redeemed humanity.
Methodism teaches that heaven is a state where the faithful will spend eternal bliss with God: [48] Everyone that has a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ our Lord on departing from this life, goes to be in felicity with Him, and will share the eternal glories of His everlasting Kingdom; the fuller rewards and the greater glories, being reserved ...
Insisting on the impermanence of everything but God, he asserts that "eternity" is used hyperbolically and means that people abide in paradise and hell only as long as both worlds last. [ 13 ] : 169 Most Sunnis, however, hold the opinion that paradise and hell are eternal.
Both Calvin and Luther continued to believe in an intermediate state, but Calvin held to a more conscious existence for the souls of the dead than Luther did. For Calvin, believers in the intermediate state enjoyed a blessedness that was incomplete, in anticipation of the resurrection.
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In Mesopotamian and Greek religion, the gods also made certain men and women physically immortal, [13] [14] whereas in Christianity, many believe that all true believers will be resurrected to physical immortality. [5] [6] Similar beliefs that physical immortality is possible are held by Rastafarians or Rebirthers.