We know nothing apart from Scripture about the eternal future and it is pictorially explained to us therein as a new heavens and a new Earth, a city, a river of life flowing through the new paradise with abundantly flourishing fruit trees are flourishing, a feast with the finest food and drink. These depictions caution us against a spirit / flesh dualism which prizes the immaterial. Work and life in eternity are embodied and to be enjoyed as such: “God the Lord saves not only the souls of people, but also their body, and not only the bodies of people, but also nature, and in that nature, the external life of humanity.”
Light in Public Life
