Ever since I read a review of “Heaven Is Not My Home” over at The Jolly Blogger, I’ve been hoping our local library would stock a copy.
But since I had in my possession an Anchor Room gift certificate, I thought it was a dandy time to pick up a copy.
As David Wayne says in his review that captured my attention:
The view that many Christians have is that, after this life, our souls go to heaven and we walk streets of gold, wearing white robes and singing hymns for eternity. What Marshall does is show that our eternal destiny may in fact look a bit more like our current earthly existence than we realize.
Marshall correctly brings out the biblical teaching that the created order is basically good, and therefore it can be embraced. Sin is not the essence of the creation, sin is an imposter.
Because many Christians have wrongly interpreted Biblical passages on the world and worldliness we have adopted an attitude that sees this world as something evil at worst, or unnecessary at best. Either way, this world and this earth and this creation are to be avoided or endured until the time when we will be freed from all of it.
I’m looking forward to reading it — once I get done with “The Rise of the Creative Class.”
