There is a curious theory of the end times that considers that the blessed of mankind will be restored to the Garden of Eden to enjoy an Endemic Bliss forever. One obvious problem with this idea is that it makes God’s work of new creation (II Cor. ) nonsensical. God rested from His first work and no one was allowed to share in His rest before He began (John 1:1 vs. 1:2) a new work (Heb ). The original work was in the realm of the heavens and the earth which are still in operation. This realm was established to make an end of the problem of evil. The contraption of the old heavens and earth (the more uncomfortable the word “contraption” makes you is an indicator of the influence of evolutionary doctrine in the heart) will be dismantled and trashed (). No part of an earthly garden will remain to which the redeemed may return. Of course, the majority of those that believe in the “back to the Garden” concept are convinced that they were hovering around the garden in some quasi-spiritual way when it was first planted by God (before the foundation of the world, so to speak) and refuse to countenance the notion that they are humans like everyone else and are subject to the demand God places on them that they meet him at the cross of Jesus!
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