Orthodox Christianity: 'A New Heaven and a New Earth'

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'A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH’

Paradise is not a place, it is rather a state of the soul. Just as Hell is a suffering on account of the impossibility to love, Paradise is bliss that derives from the abundance of love and light. He who has been united to Christ participates completely and integrally in Paradise. The Greek word paradeisos signifies both the garden of Eden, where primordial man was placed, and the age to come, where those people who have been redeemed and saved by Christ taste eternal blessing. It can also be applied to the final stage of human history, when all creation will be transformed, and God will be ‘all in all’. The blessing of Paradise is also called in Christian tradition ‘the Kingdom of heaven’, ‘the life of the age to come’, ‘the eighth day’, ‘a new heaven’, ‘the heavenly Jerusalem’.

More at: An Orthodox Catechism | St. Michael's Orthodox Church

https://www.stmichaelsgeneva.org/orthodoxcatechism

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1. Any mention of "new Purgatory" or "new Limbo"...?

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2. There would not be.

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3. Perhaps I'm just easily entertained.

But I find it fascinating, the notions people invent from whole cloth, confer universal acquiescence, codify and then attempt to enforce. It's the story of "civilizations" in a nutshell. Belief systems centered around preserving the remnants of some ancient's fever dreams are high maintenance items. Predicting the future based on spiritual concepts is a fools errand. Just ask god.

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4. It's one's sole determination to believe or not.

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6. Is faith an addictive compulsion?

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7. Perhaps it can be if debased.

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8. Peace be with you.

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9. Peace be to you as well.

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5. Attempting to 'enforce'?