I have a hunch: we will have jobs in the new Jerusalem. We will work. As Eden was a place of work, so will heaven be. Work was not a result of sin. Why? Because humans are homo faber (humans who work), created to “tend and keep” and enjoy the fruits of their work. So close to their human function was work that the biblical author uses the same word for “tend” as “worship.” To care for the garden was to worship the Creator. Eden was a divine domain of work and worship, not a world of sedentary laziness or unproductivity. The created world was to be creatively worked and nurtured. Work is not a
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