Crazy Christian Doctrines

I got to go to Harvard yesterday with Liz to hear one of my prof's speak on the bodily Resurrection of Jesus Christ. Before, I get to the teaching, got to say that the campus of Harvard is like Heaven!! The library looks like the White House, seriously! Every building is massive, reaching to the Heavens, well not quite!! I love it.

The teaching was stimulating and extremely interesting:

The main idea of the night was that the bodily resurrection of Jesus has opened the door for those who believe in Him to have access to the New Heavens and the New Earth where our present bodily will be meaningfully related to our glorified bodies (or you can just say, the bodies we will have in Heaven).

Did you catch that "meaningfully related?" Not the same.

What we do in our physical bodies is going to have eternal consequences. Yes, that is true. The work or lack of work, one does will effect our eternal residency in Heaven. Works don't get us into heaven, only God could engineer that process, if you don't believe me just try to raise yourself from the dead!! We can't do it ourselves, but our works are the result of the hope we have in the bodily resurrection.

Heaven, the Bible depicts, is a lot more then clouds and harps! Everything on earth that is tainted by sin will be renewed and everything, believers have done with the right motivation will be better, if that was not the case, then why would have God given us the command to fill the earth and to exercise dominion over it, and the Jesus command us to love God and our neighbor? We have these commandments because what believers who are following Christ do while in their physical body directly effects eternity when we will be in our heavenly body.

If our life work did not mean a thing for eternity, God would have no grounds as a just and loving God, to judge us on the day of judgement when every man and woman will stand before God, and give an account for their life work.

He ended his talk with an admonishment, to the students of Harvard, not to be scared of good works, because the apostle, Paul says that is exactly what we were created for and James the brother of Jesus, says, without them your faith is dead, but do good works out of our love for God.