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    Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World
    Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World
    Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World
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    Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World

    By Ian K. Smith

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    "A vivid picture of how this earth matters to God—our work, our communities, and the physical world." —Scott B. Rae
    Beginning with the creation of the heavens and earth and ending with the New Jerusalem, the storyline of Scripture reveals God's commitment to the physical world that he created. Our final destiny is not some disembodied, heavenly existence but rather life with God on a renewed earth. How does this understanding of our future home affect our lives today? What role should Christians play in meeting physical needs? Are spiritual realities more significant than physical?
    This book will help us understand God's eternal vision for the renewal of this earth and discover purpose in all of our daily, real-world endeavors, such as work, the arts, social justice, ecology, medicine, and more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCrossway Books
    Release dateAug 22, 2019
    ISBN9781433562808
    Not Home Yet: How the Renewal of the Earth Fits into God's Plan for the World
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    Ian K. Smith

    Dr. Ian K. Smith is the number-one New York Times bestselling author of Shred: The Revolutionary Diet, as well as Super Shred: The Big Results Diet, Blast the Sugar Out!, The Clean 20, and twelve other books, with millions of copies in print. His novels included the award-winning The Blackbird Papers, The Ancient Nine, and the Ashe Cayne series, The Unspoken, Wolf Point, The Overnights, and Eagle Rock. Dr. Smith is a graduate of Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Chicago, and is the medical contributor and cohost of The Rachael Ray Show.

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    • 3/5
      This book is about Heaven and a renewed Earth (new heaven and earth mentioned in scripture) Smith spends each chapter showing us that Jesus resurrection was not only for the salvation of man but for the full renewal of man and our physical fallen earth. His points are all well researched and he uses scripture to connect his points. He does stretch our thinking in a lot of good ways and I think there is value in this book for that reason. I just did not agree with some small things he said along the way that seemed to be “his view” or something he uses in his teaching that is just not the right idea or way of saying something.

      An example early in the book is when he called Noah the second Adam. Jesus is the second Adam and there are only two, Adam (fallen) and Jesus (redeemer). Yes, there are similarities in creation and the restoring of the world after Noah but he is not the second Adam. Just little things like that didn’t sit well with what I know of God’s word. This is just one example of several things I questioned.

      There were many other things that were spot on with scripture and there was a lot right about this book. Again, I think it has value and I would not say to walk away from it but be aware that you need to truly search scripture as you read this and literally every other book that is not the Bible. Be as the Bereans (from Acts 17) and check it all with scripture.

      If you have questions about heaven and what happens to us when we die this is a great read. It also covers what happens to us when Jesus returns before we die. He is very thorough on this and uses several big passages from Paul to show us his conclusions.

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