Wow . . . Randy Alcorn on whether or not our pets will be in Heaven:
March 24, 2010 | 
Author I’m not sure if he’s trying to refer to Heaven or the Millennial Kingdom – but, wow . . .
Yeah, I checked Isaiah 60 as well – hhmmm. I suppose all of the camels will be coming from Midian and Ephah; from Sheba as well. I suppose the “You will also suck the milk of nations and suck the breast of Kings” is literal too.
Alcorn’s Heaven, not a book I am running out to buy anytime soon.
At least Greg Laurie doesn’t make it all about himself . . .
Randy Alcorn on pets in heaven
I am not quite sure why I am taking up space with this post, except for the fact that I have heard this A LOT and it is this kind of “over-systematizing” systematic theology that has created a massive catalog of doctrines that crowd out the point. The video could be any number of things, I suppose.
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It was at this point in Alcorn’s book on heaven that I realized that the “principle of redemptive continuity” was being used as nothing less than a tool to reinvent all man’s favorite things about earth in eternity. He even thinks things like historic land marks and baseball stadiums will be recreated on the new earth. The first few chapters of the book were great but I just couldn’t justify investing any more time on all the miniscule and often ridiculous applications of his theology of heaven (if the word “theology” is even appropriate in that context).
Yeah, that is a theme that I also hear a lot. I am so looking forward to not having my earthly things – sin, suffering, selfishness; at the same time I am looking forward to my favorite thing finally being correct – God, His glory, unhindered praise.
So it would seem that as Voltaire said, “God made man in His image and then man returned the favor” extends out to other things as well.
Thanks for the comments, Justin. I am really grateful that we are getting to have these dialogs.
Here’s another great pertinent quote from Piper:
How shall God love us? Mere logic could give us the answer: God loves us best by giving us the best to enjoy forever, namely himself, for he is best. . . The Bible makes this clear. “For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life” (John 3:16). God loves us by giving us eternal life at the cost of his Son, Jesus Christ. But what is eternal life? Is it eternal self-esteem? Is it a heaven full of mirrors? Or snowboards, or golf links, or black-eyed virgins?
No. Jesus tells us exactly what he meant: “And this is eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent” (John 17:3). What is eternal life? It is to know God and his Son, Jesus Christ. No thing can satisfy the soul. The soul was made to stand in awe of a Person—the only person worthy of awe. All heroes are shadows of Christ. We love to admire their excellence. How much more will we be satisfied by the one Person who conceived all excellence and embodies all skill, all talent, all strength and brilliance and savvy and goodness.
~ Don’t Waste Your Life, p. 34