I have tried to manually add some footnotes, for I did draw from a few sources for this talk, and there is a good chance that I have overlooked some more references that should be in here.
We have come to our final talk in the series on being human. Today as we think through the Created, Broken and Restored framework, we really are landing on the Restored accent, but not just in this life, but in the life to come. Today as we think through these categories, we will move very quickly through the first two of Created and Broken and then come to Restored but still Broken then to finally Restored. We will be looking forward, but not minimizing the reality of today.
Suffering and death and pain are a real pain, isn’t it? we can’t ignore it and there is something in us that tells us that these things are not right. Often people object to God for allowing pain and suffering and death into this world. Why does God allow all these terrible things? What is He doing in all of this mess? These objections can sometimes be understandable, we aren’t privy to what God knows, we don’t see the editor's footnotes in the story of history. We may not know what the Author is doing in some moments.
But it is curious, as at least Christianity as a worldview has something to say about suffering while others, when faced with the finality of death don’t really have an answer at all. Other worldviews have different creation stories and different future stories, that don’t or can’t handle suffering[1]. One dominant view is that in the beginning there was nothing and that exploded and created everything - and in the end, it all goes back to nothing. You can try and consume and seek pleasure now, and make up your own standard and purpose, and find your own meaning, but in the end, there is nothing - it all goes back to the heat death of the universe
Another view is that the beginning was power and forces. These powers and forces run the universe and the world that we are in. Our universe beats to their drum. Star systems and ecosystems are governed by these laws, life cycles are ruled by this power, by these impersonal forces. The strong are the ones who survive in this harsh system and history is written by the victor. We live in a world of inequality and so the powerful have to take control to survive themselves and maybe to help redistribute to those in need. Near the end of Orwell’s 1984, a high-ranking member of the thought police puts forward their future story in what a world governed and controlled by power might look like:
That is one bleak future ruled by power. But without God, our future, our sense of justice and fairness, our view of death and meaning is meaningless. We go back to nothing, or only the strong survive. But in our passage from the end of the Bible, we get a glimpse at where things are heading. Pain and suffering and death are real for now, but one day God will deal with it in the end and remove all of it.
The whole story of the Bible is one of redemption, restoration and reconciliation. It is about how God is bringing people back to Himself.
“The answer to both questions—where we are from and where we are headed—is the same: God. Our ultimate origins are in God, and our ultimate end is in God as well. As T. S. Eliot wrote, “In my end is my beginning” our final destination is the same as where we started”[2]
But both man and women disobeyed the one rule and in doing so, in exercising their wills in rebellion to God, they were punished for it, and that caused a huge tilde way of issues for humans ever since. Our relationship with God was broken; our relationships with each other are broken; even how we related to the earth and ourselves is broken. Death and sin and shame entered this world and we hid from God, and we hid each other and ourselves.
And He was really human, He took on flesh, He had wobbly bits under His arm and hair in His nose. He really walked the earth and probably stubbed His toe and got pins and needles for sitting too long. He knew hunger and tiredness. He was let down by others, He knew what it was like to be misunderstood. It is a crazy idea, but I am thankful that we remember this great miracle every year at Christmas. God became man. Immanuel. God values humans so much that He became one of them.
And as He lived, He grew and showed us what it means to be a true human. Jesus may not have had the highest IQ in the world[6]. The higher your IQ you have does not mean the more human you are. The Messiah did not have to be the smartest person around. Jesus may not have been the strongest or the best looking person either, as the stronger or better looking you are does not make you more human. But Jesus was the true human, He was the most human and He showed us what that meant. Any understanding we might have about what it means to be a human must factor in Jesus, who was the perfect human[7].
He walked in a way of love. He was dependent on the Father, He spoke the truth and went about restoring people. He gave of Himself, He worked and He served. For loving God and loving others is what we are called to as humans.
But Jesus knew He also had to die for the humans of the world. There is this interesting verse in Luke 9:51 that says:[8]
The first Adam, though guilty said “Don’t blame me; blame my wife”. The last Adam, though innocent, said “Don’t blame my wife. Blame me.”[9]
Now Jesus did achieved all that He set out to do, He completed the task and conquered sin and death. He then sent people on a mission to spread the Good News about salvation to the ends of the earth. God’s people were given work to do, but this time it wasn’t gardening, this time it was about spreading the news about Jesus and multiplying disciples.
This message of redemption, restoration and reconciliation is not just words, it is life-transforming. This changes our identities, in how we think about ourselves and who we are as humans. As we live this alternative lifestyle we join non-conforming communities, where we learn more and more about how to live with this new sense of self. How we are to relate to others, how do we use our sexuality, how do we view our work in this world, how do we approach death and more of that which we have looked at this term.
This message of Jesus has the power to change our behaviours and inclinations. The major narrative in our world today says to be yourself. On Thursdays I saw this doctrine printed on a wall in the temple of Ikea, saying “Free to be you”. That is what we are told today, to look within and choose your next step, use your freedom to be who you are meant to be. By choosing the appropriate storage solution, you are clearly demonstrating you are in control of your own destiny.
But the message of Jesus, the gospel says, this goal of using your freedom for yourself, this meaning and purpose that you are looking for within is too small. Forget being yourself, be like God. That is a bigger and better picture of what it means to be human, about what it means to follow Jesus. Be holy for God is holy (1 Peter 1:16). And we are not left on our own to achieve this. God sends His own Spirit within us to help us to live like Him. Christians are restored to be people helped by God to be what we are created to be. To be able to please God and one day to be brought back to Him.
But life is not always that simple. The trouble is, there is still trouble in this world. It is still hard. There are still people and things broken in this world. There are frustrations, and aliment, and worries and death, and we may feel like we are far from God for we can not see Him.
But we are not in the final act of history. His story has one more act to play out. We see this final act in Revelations. There is a new heaven and a new earth where God will dwell with His people. God Himself will be there - to be God to His people. And God will remove all tears, there will be no death or mourning or crying or pain. All of that suffering was part of the old order of things. Under this new government, everything will be made new, including us.
But not everyone will make it. We are told that evil and rebellion will be dealt with. Those who disobeyed God, those who did their own thing, those who were true to their sinful self, they will not inherit the new creation. They will go to the second death.
I think Jesus was telling the truth in the parable of the weeds, where he says
All those who trust only in their own personal spiritual experience, or their hard logic of science or stoicism are not trusting in the truth of Jesus.
All those who think they lived a good life and did enough good things, and haven’t killed anyone are not trusting in the life of Jesus, but their own.
Christianity doesn’t hold to universalism, not everyone is going to the new creation. Only those in Christ, only those who are God’s children, only those who confess that Jesus is Lord are saved. Those whose names are found in the Book of Life are those who will come to the new creation.
This is the great climax, the great restoration of all things. God will dwell with His people. There have been tents, and temples and even Jesus and His Holy Spirit on earth to help with God being with His people, but here, in the new heaven and earth, God is with His people forever. The great Christmas event that is embedded in our calendar once every year will be a real ongoing thing. We will be with God.
And all things will be made new again. Creation, us and our relationship with God will all be made new.
Did you catch the overtones of Revelation 22 with Genesis 2?
And we will be made new physically for this new creation is a physical thing with city walls and trees and streams. We will be restored with new resurrected bodies that will not wear out, that will not die. I love 1 Corinthians 15, it is my favourite chapter in the Bible. In that, we are told that we will be given an imperishable body, and we will be changed. That the sting of death has been taken away because of the victory of Christ.
John gives a similar promise in 1 John 3:2
In being like him, will not become exactly as He is, we may not become all-knowing, or all powerful, we may not be able to control the weather, but we will be like him in his character. We will be perfect, sinless, able to worship God with a pure heart. Able to love others without mixed motives. We will be able to do what pleases God without struggle. We will be fully human, restored back to our original intention.
We also will be like God in that we will never die. We will live forever. Jesus will return in a body, like his resurrected one, and we will get the same, and this body, it will be immortal. It will last the length of heaven, which is forever and ever. And there we will see Jesus, like he was at His transfiguration, in all His glory.
God has shown his great love for us and promises that one day we will be like Jesus, pure and everlasting. He did this not because we were good and loved him first, but because He is and loves us. And we can now wait with hope, looking forward to that great moment where we will see Jesus. And as we wait, we can look up to him, like a child to a parent, and we can see what we will become, pure just as He is pure. Everlasting just as He is everlasting.
And in the new creation, our relationships with God will be made new too. No longer will we be distant from God, because He will be there. There will be no more sin or evil in our character, we will be perfect and we will be able to be in the presence of a perfect God, forever. As there will be no more death.
Death is sad and terrible. It isn’t natural. It wasn’t in the original plans, it has been smuggled in via rebellion. Two weeks ago I was away celebrating my 15th wedding anniversary. Just before our dinner came I got the message from Ian about Joe Mullins who had just died. At that restaurant table, I replied “that is sad, but also good, he is home”. Joe will be with God now forever, in the new Jerusalem.
Once a minister was giving a eulogy for another minister Ramsey Pollard who had died. He closed with “Good night, Ramsey. I’ll see you in the morning.” And that is the truth of it. It might be good night here, but it is good morning there.[11]
And we can be assured of this, for God said so. He said it, His words are trustworthy and true. That is the end of the matter.
And so while we wait, it may not be easy. But we are to resolutely set out for the new Jerusalem, knowing that between here and there, it will be hard. There will be pain and suffering. There may even be death. But, we have hope and confidence in Jesus and His death.
Benjamin Franklin wrote in advance the epitaph to be on his gravestone: “The body of Benjamin Franklin, Printer, like the cover of an old book, its contents torn out and stripped of its lettering and gilding, lies here. Food for worms. But the Work itself shall not be lost; for it will, as he believed, appear once more in a new and more elegant edition, corrected and improved by the Author.”
That can be our story too, for all who trust in Jesus and His saving work, will be corrected and improved by the Author too.
[1] I took the next two views of nothing and power from Glen Scrivener’s 3-2-1 course, from the video on 3 back around 2013. He has recently updated this course, but I haven’t seen that and am not sure if this is in the new version.
[2] Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 4 (Theological Perspective)
[3] This also is from the above 3-2-1 course video
[4] N. D. Wilson said this at a Desiring God conference on C.S Lewis
[5] Not my idea, but I forget where this came from sorry…
[6] This section is from You’re Only Human by Kelly M. Kapic
[7] This idea from An Introduction to Theological Anthropology: Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine by Joshua R. Farris
[8] This set-up that I do with Jesus and Jerusalem and later with us and the New Jerusalem I think is an original idea I had, but I bet it was in some commentary or a book that I have read and have forgotten the original source
[9] R.C Sproul Jr tweeted this: https://twitter.com/rcsprouljr/status/1724833172465062018
[10] This is all from a past talk about a month ago
[11] Hobbs, H. H. (1990). My favorite illustrations (p. 105). Broadman Press.
We have come to our final talk in the series on being human. Today as we think through the Created, Broken and Restored framework, we really are landing on the Restored accent, but not just in this life, but in the life to come. Today as we think through these categories, we will move very quickly through the first two of Created and Broken and then come to Restored but still Broken then to finally Restored. We will be looking forward, but not minimizing the reality of today.
Suffering and death and pain are a real pain, isn’t it? we can’t ignore it and there is something in us that tells us that these things are not right. Often people object to God for allowing pain and suffering and death into this world. Why does God allow all these terrible things? What is He doing in all of this mess? These objections can sometimes be understandable, we aren’t privy to what God knows, we don’t see the editor's footnotes in the story of history. We may not know what the Author is doing in some moments.
But it is curious, as at least Christianity as a worldview has something to say about suffering while others, when faced with the finality of death don’t really have an answer at all. Other worldviews have different creation stories and different future stories, that don’t or can’t handle suffering[1]. One dominant view is that in the beginning there was nothing and that exploded and created everything - and in the end, it all goes back to nothing. You can try and consume and seek pleasure now, and make up your own standard and purpose, and find your own meaning, but in the end, there is nothing - it all goes back to the heat death of the universe
Another view is that the beginning was power and forces. These powers and forces run the universe and the world that we are in. Our universe beats to their drum. Star systems and ecosystems are governed by these laws, life cycles are ruled by this power, by these impersonal forces. The strong are the ones who survive in this harsh system and history is written by the victor. We live in a world of inequality and so the powerful have to take control to survive themselves and maybe to help redistribute to those in need. Near the end of Orwell’s 1984, a high-ranking member of the thought police puts forward their future story in what a world governed and controlled by power might look like:
“There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always --do not forget this, Winston --always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face --for ever.”” (1984 by Geroge Orwell)
That is one bleak future ruled by power. But without God, our future, our sense of justice and fairness, our view of death and meaning is meaningless. We go back to nothing, or only the strong survive. But in our passage from the end of the Bible, we get a glimpse at where things are heading. Pain and suffering and death are real for now, but one day God will deal with it in the end and remove all of it.
The whole story of the Bible is one of redemption, restoration and reconciliation. It is about how God is bringing people back to Himself.
“The answer to both questions—where we are from and where we are headed—is the same: God. Our ultimate origins are in God, and our ultimate end is in God as well. As T. S. Eliot wrote, “In my end is my beginning” our final destination is the same as where we started”[2]
Created and Broken
Our creation story begins with love[3]. God is love and creates a good world with people for Him to be in a relationship with. God made a world with trees and dirt and streams. There is good food and other resources like gold and resin. And people were given the breath of life from God, and they were made very good. They were given work to do in the garden, to tend to it and to multiply and they had access to the tree of life.But both man and women disobeyed the one rule and in doing so, in exercising their wills in rebellion to God, they were punished for it, and that caused a huge tilde way of issues for humans ever since. Our relationship with God was broken; our relationships with each other are broken; even how we related to the earth and ourselves is broken. Death and sin and shame entered this world and we hid from God, and we hid each other and ourselves.
Restored and Broken
But God, He sought a way forward. In the story of the Bible we see that He created a people for Himself, and chose to reveal Himself to them and made promises about someone who would come and save people from their rebellion. And the crazy thing was, this person who came, was God himself. This is what we remember at Christmas time, the moment when God wrote himself into the story of humans - as a human. God was joined to a placenta in a woman’s womb[4]. The first woman came out of Adam, but the last Adam came out of a woman [5].And He was really human, He took on flesh, He had wobbly bits under His arm and hair in His nose. He really walked the earth and probably stubbed His toe and got pins and needles for sitting too long. He knew hunger and tiredness. He was let down by others, He knew what it was like to be misunderstood. It is a crazy idea, but I am thankful that we remember this great miracle every year at Christmas. God became man. Immanuel. God values humans so much that He became one of them.
And as He lived, He grew and showed us what it means to be a true human. Jesus may not have had the highest IQ in the world[6]. The higher your IQ you have does not mean the more human you are. The Messiah did not have to be the smartest person around. Jesus may not have been the strongest or the best looking person either, as the stronger or better looking you are does not make you more human. But Jesus was the true human, He was the most human and He showed us what that meant. Any understanding we might have about what it means to be a human must factor in Jesus, who was the perfect human[7].
He walked in a way of love. He was dependent on the Father, He spoke the truth and went about restoring people. He gave of Himself, He worked and He served. For loving God and loving others is what we are called to as humans.
But Jesus knew He also had to die for the humans of the world. There is this interesting verse in Luke 9:51 that says:[8]
“As the time approached for him to be taken up to heaven, Jesus resolutely set out for Jerusalem.”Jesus knew He was going back to heaven, but to go there He had to go via Jerusalem. Jesus knew He was the only way He could rightly restore people back to God, for He was the perfect human, who never sinned and was willing to take the punishment for everyone else. So He resolutely set out to Jerusalem, knowing that it would be hard, knowing that He would suffer and die there, but He did it for His people, His bride the church.
The first Adam, though guilty said “Don’t blame me; blame my wife”. The last Adam, though innocent, said “Don’t blame my wife. Blame me.”[9]
Now Jesus did achieved all that He set out to do, He completed the task and conquered sin and death. He then sent people on a mission to spread the Good News about salvation to the ends of the earth. God’s people were given work to do, but this time it wasn’t gardening, this time it was about spreading the news about Jesus and multiplying disciples.
This message of redemption, restoration and reconciliation is not just words, it is life-transforming. This changes our identities, in how we think about ourselves and who we are as humans. As we live this alternative lifestyle we join non-conforming communities, where we learn more and more about how to live with this new sense of self. How we are to relate to others, how do we use our sexuality, how do we view our work in this world, how do we approach death and more of that which we have looked at this term.
But the message of Jesus, the gospel says, this goal of using your freedom for yourself, this meaning and purpose that you are looking for within is too small. Forget being yourself, be like God. That is a bigger and better picture of what it means to be human, about what it means to follow Jesus. Be holy for God is holy (1 Peter 1:16). And we are not left on our own to achieve this. God sends His own Spirit within us to help us to live like Him. Christians are restored to be people helped by God to be what we are created to be. To be able to please God and one day to be brought back to Him.
But life is not always that simple. The trouble is, there is still trouble in this world. It is still hard. There are still people and things broken in this world. There are frustrations, and aliment, and worries and death, and we may feel like we are far from God for we can not see Him.
But we are not in the final act of history. His story has one more act to play out. We see this final act in Revelations. There is a new heaven and a new earth where God will dwell with His people. God Himself will be there - to be God to His people. And God will remove all tears, there will be no death or mourning or crying or pain. All of that suffering was part of the old order of things. Under this new government, everything will be made new, including us.
But not everyone will make it. We are told that evil and rebellion will be dealt with. Those who disobeyed God, those who did their own thing, those who were true to their sinful self, they will not inherit the new creation. They will go to the second death.
I think Jesus was telling the truth in the parable of the weeds, where he says
Let both grow together until the harvest. At that time I will tell the harvesters: First collect the weeds and tie them in bundles to be burned; then gather the wheat and bring it into my barn (Mat 13:30)Likewise in the story of the sheep and the goats, there will be a separation of people, some
… will go away to eternal punishment, but the righteous to eternal life. (Mat 25:36)I believe Jesus when He said
“I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me. (John 14:6)All those who are sincere in other faiths, don’t come to the Father through Jesus for He is the only way.
All those who trust only in their own personal spiritual experience, or their hard logic of science or stoicism are not trusting in the truth of Jesus.
All those who think they lived a good life and did enough good things, and haven’t killed anyone are not trusting in the life of Jesus, but their own.
Christianity doesn’t hold to universalism, not everyone is going to the new creation. Only those in Christ, only those who are God’s children, only those who confess that Jesus is Lord are saved. Those whose names are found in the Book of Life are those who will come to the new creation.
Restored
Now, we aren’t told much about this new creation, only that there will be a new city, a new Jerusalem that is fit for the King of Kings. We aren’t told much about what we will be doing, what activities we will get up to, how we will relate to each other, how the zoning committee works in the city, or what type of public facilities it will have, we get none of that, but in this section, of Revelation 21 the main thing on which the author wants to hammer, the main point about this new dynasty that the giant spotlight is on, is that God Himself will be there.This is the great climax, the great restoration of all things. God will dwell with His people. There have been tents, and temples and even Jesus and His Holy Spirit on earth to help with God being with His people, but here, in the new heaven and earth, God is with His people forever. The great Christmas event that is embedded in our calendar once every year will be a real ongoing thing. We will be with God.
And all things will be made new again. Creation, us and our relationship with God will all be made new.
Did you catch the overtones of Revelation 22 with Genesis 2?
Then the angel showed me the river of the water of life, as clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb down the middle of the great street of the city. On each side of the river stood the tree of life, bearing twelve crops of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And the leaves of the tree are for the healing of the nations. No longer will there be any curse. The throne of God and of the Lamb will be in the city, and his servants will serve him. (Revelation 22:1–3)There is a river coming from the city, like there was a river coming from Eden, and the tree of life is back, and he will fruit every month. There will be no more curse in the land and it will last forever and ever.
And we will be made new physically for this new creation is a physical thing with city walls and trees and streams. We will be restored with new resurrected bodies that will not wear out, that will not die. I love 1 Corinthians 15, it is my favourite chapter in the Bible. In that, we are told that we will be given an imperishable body, and we will be changed. That the sting of death has been taken away because of the victory of Christ.
John gives a similar promise in 1 John 3:2
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when Christ appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”We will change when we see Jesus. It is like a Dad who goes on a big business trip and brings presents for everyone. When Jesus returns it says we will get two things, we will be like him and we shall see him[10].
In being like him, will not become exactly as He is, we may not become all-knowing, or all powerful, we may not be able to control the weather, but we will be like him in his character. We will be perfect, sinless, able to worship God with a pure heart. Able to love others without mixed motives. We will be able to do what pleases God without struggle. We will be fully human, restored back to our original intention.
We also will be like God in that we will never die. We will live forever. Jesus will return in a body, like his resurrected one, and we will get the same, and this body, it will be immortal. It will last the length of heaven, which is forever and ever. And there we will see Jesus, like he was at His transfiguration, in all His glory.
God has shown his great love for us and promises that one day we will be like Jesus, pure and everlasting. He did this not because we were good and loved him first, but because He is and loves us. And we can now wait with hope, looking forward to that great moment where we will see Jesus. And as we wait, we can look up to him, like a child to a parent, and we can see what we will become, pure just as He is pure. Everlasting just as He is everlasting.
And in the new creation, our relationships with God will be made new too. No longer will we be distant from God, because He will be there. There will be no more sin or evil in our character, we will be perfect and we will be able to be in the presence of a perfect God, forever. As there will be no more death.
Death is sad and terrible. It isn’t natural. It wasn’t in the original plans, it has been smuggled in via rebellion. Two weeks ago I was away celebrating my 15th wedding anniversary. Just before our dinner came I got the message from Ian about Joe Mullins who had just died. At that restaurant table, I replied “that is sad, but also good, he is home”. Joe will be with God now forever, in the new Jerusalem.
Once a minister was giving a eulogy for another minister Ramsey Pollard who had died. He closed with “Good night, Ramsey. I’ll see you in the morning.” And that is the truth of it. It might be good night here, but it is good morning there.[11]
And we can be assured of this, for God said so. He said it, His words are trustworthy and true. That is the end of the matter.
When that great Christian and scientist, Sir Michael Faraday, was dying, some journalists questioned him as to his speculations for a life after death. “Speculations!” said he, “I know nothing about speculations. I’m resting on certainties. “I know that my redeemer liveth,” and because He lives, I shall live also.”[12]When God says He is making everything new, even when it looks like its night, even when it looks like it is going to death, we can have confidence in His word, that this last act of history is coming. That God will deal with death and pain. Other secular worldviews don’t have this confidence or assurance, but we do, because God has said so.
And so while we wait, it may not be easy. But we are to resolutely set out for the new Jerusalem, knowing that between here and there, it will be hard. There will be pain and suffering. There may even be death. But, we have hope and confidence in Jesus and His death.
... he suffered death, so that by the grace of God he might taste death for everyone. (Hebrews 2:9)
Since the children have flesh and blood, he too shared in their humanity so that by his death he might break the power of him who holds the power of death—that is, the devil—and free those who all their lives were held in slavery by their fear of death. (Hebrews 2:14–15)Jesus has paved the way and taken the sting of death away from us, and He promises that this is not the end. There is a new heaven and a new earth. Where we will be given a new body and be able to dwell with God forever.
That can be our story too, for all who trust in Jesus and His saving work, will be corrected and improved by the Author too.
I saw the Holy City, the new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God, prepared as a bride beautifully dressed for her husband. And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, “Look! God’s dwelling place is now among the people, and he will dwell with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. ‘He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death’ or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.” (Revelation 21:2–4)May we have this great confidence and assurance that these words are trustworthy and true.
[1] I took the next two views of nothing and power from Glen Scrivener’s 3-2-1 course, from the video on 3 back around 2013. He has recently updated this course, but I haven’t seen that and am not sure if this is in the new version.
[2] Feasting on the Word: Preaching the Revised Common Lectionary: Year B, Volume 4 (Theological Perspective)
[3] This also is from the above 3-2-1 course video
[4] N. D. Wilson said this at a Desiring God conference on C.S Lewis
[5] Not my idea, but I forget where this came from sorry…
[6] This section is from You’re Only Human by Kelly M. Kapic
[7] This idea from An Introduction to Theological Anthropology: Humans, Both Creaturely and Divine by Joshua R. Farris
[8] This set-up that I do with Jesus and Jerusalem and later with us and the New Jerusalem I think is an original idea I had, but I bet it was in some commentary or a book that I have read and have forgotten the original source
[9] R.C Sproul Jr tweeted this: https://twitter.com/rcsprouljr/status/1724833172465062018
[10] This is all from a past talk about a month ago
[12] Encyclopedia of 7700 Illustrations 1039 Faraday Rested on Certainties
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