Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived

Nor did John, Peter, James, or the woman who wrote the Letter to the Hebrews. So if that’s it, if that’s the point of it all, if that’s the ticket, the center, the one unavoidable reality, the heart of the Christian faith, why is it that no one used the phrase until the last hundred years or so?

How great is God? Great enough to achieve what God sets out to do, or kind of great, medium great, great most of the time, but in this,

Or are they referring to the very life source of the universe

What is it that when you do it, you lose track of time because you get lost in it? What do you do that makes you think, “I could do this forever”?

Do you know any individuals

That’s why wealth is so dangerous: if you’re not careful you can easily end up with a garage full of nouns.

So when people ask, “What will we do in heaven?” one possible answer is to simply ask: “What do you love to do now that will go on in the world to come?”

I believe the discussion itself is divine.

The ancient sages said the words of the sacred text were black letters on a white page—there’s all that white space, waiting to be filled with our responses and discussions and debates and opinions and longings and desires and wisdom and insights.

The problem, however, is that the phrase “personal relationship” is found nowhere in the Bible. Nowhere in the Hebrew scriptures, nowhere in the New Testament. Jesus never used the phrase. Paul didn’t use it.