unlike all other major religions, Christianity promises not a spirit-only future, but a renewed heavens and earth, a perfected material world from which all suffering and tears, disease, evil, injustice, and death have been eliminated. Our future is not an immaterial one. We are not going to float in the kingdom of God like ghosts. We’re going to walk, eat, hug, and be hugged. We’re going to love. We’re going to sing, because we’re going to have vocal cords. And we will do all this in degrees of joy, excellence, satisfaction, beauty, and power we cannot now imagine. We’re going to eat and
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