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

Heaven is both the peace, stillness, serenity, and calm that come from having everything in its right place—that state in which nothing is required, needed, or missing—and the endless joy that comes from participating in the ongoing creation of the world.

Do you know any individuals

Taking heaven seriously, then, means taking suffering seriously, now. Not because we’ve bought into the myth that we can create a utopia given enough time, technology, and good voting choices, but because we have great confidence that God has not abandoned human history and is actively at work within it, taking it somewhere.

When people use the word “Jesus,” then, it’s important for us to ask who they’re talking about. Are they referring to a token of tribal membership, a tamed, domesticated Jesus who waves

So when we hear that a certain person has “rejected Christ,” we should first ask, “Which Christ?”

he’s up to—except demons, who know exactly who he is and what’s he doing.

the flag and promotes whatever values they have decided their nation needs to return to? Are they referring to the supposed source of the imperial impulse of their group, which wants to conquer other groups “in the name of Jesus”? Are they referring to the logo or slogan of their political, economic, or military system through which they sanctify t

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.

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