Finally, what will happen at the end of time, according to Scripture? God is not going to scrap the idea of a physical universe and replace it with a purely ethereal plane of being, as though he made a mistake the first time. Instead he is going to replace it with “a new earth” (Rev. 21:1). And you and I will live on that new earth in new physical bodies. In the Apostles’ Creed, Christians affirm “the resurrection of the body.” This is an astonishingly high view of the physical world. Christianity imparts greater value to the material realm than any version of materialism. 52
