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Chapter 1 excerpt from The Grace and Truth Paradox by Randy Alcorn 

I’m very pro-Israel, believing that God has a future purpose for the nation and that the U.S. should remain her steadfast ally. That doesn’t mean I believe the current nation of Israel, with its secular government, does everything right, and I think like every nation, including ours, it should be subject to evaluation and criticism.

You asked about the use of the Hebrew word for day—yom. First, let’s go back and list a few hermeneutical principles, then apply them.

The reason I don’t address activities about the intermediate state is because there are not a lot of details given to it.

A big one is the degree to which explicitly spiritual content can or should be woven into a story.

Recommended books on Heaven for children.

The place we’ll live forever will be where God comes down to dwell with us, on the New Earth (Revelation 21:1-3).

The power of Christ’s resurrection is enough not only to remake us, but also to remake every inch of the universe.

Note from Randy: I wrote this to the men in a study group I led, based on Dallas Willard’s book, Spirit of the Disciplines.

This world is the closest thing to heaven unbelievers will ever experience, and the closest thing to hell believers will ever know. 

The majority text (MT) really means “a statistical number larger than another text type” (i.e., called the MT = “Western Text”). The other major text type has fewer manuscripts, but they are older and some are better preserved.

I would like to see a church become so godly, so Spirit-filled that it would have a spiritual influence on all of the churches in the entire area.

Choose your friends wisely. Don’t just let friendships happen by circumstance. Make them happen by choice—careful, thoughtful choice.

A message preached by John Wesley November 30, 1781
(With inserted comments and summaries by Randy Alcorn)