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| [Originally presented March 25, 2014] |
“I have no doubt Jesus saved me and turned my life around, but that has mostly been through a painful process — more akin to
corrective surgery or having a bad tooth removed than being the recipient of a breezy spiritual makeover.” — Sarah Salviander
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Tuesday, June 23, 2015
Debunking Heavenly Mythology II: Saint Peter and the Pearly Gates
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Debunking Heavenly Mythology II: Saint Peter and the Pearly Gates
In a previous post I spent a few hundred keystrokes on the things of heaven, trying to point out how very ill-equipped the best of us is to fully comprehend them, even with the aid of the imagery of scripture, since “No eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the heart of man imagined, what God has prepared for those who love him.”
But our inability to fully apprehend everything about heavenly things is not a license to manufacture any old view of heaven wholesale. The only reliable source of knowledge about things outside current human experience is the word of God itself.

