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The New Creation Model: A Paradigm for Discovering God's Restoration Purposes from Creation to New Creation
Is our view of God’s purposes too small? What if God’s plans for the world are far grander than we imagined?Throughout church history, Christians have perceived God’s purposes and eternal life from one of two models. The Spiritual Vision Model focuses exclusively on individual and spiritual issues in this age and sees eternal life as an escape from earth to a forever spiritual existence.
In contrast, the New Creation Model embraces a comprehensive and multi-dimensional vision of God’s intentions, not only for humanity, but for all creation. And it presents eternal life as vibrant life on a restored earth in God’s presence with social and cultural activities.
In his book, The New Creation Model, Michael Vlach offers a compelling case for the New Creation Model as the biblical and holistic paradigm for understanding God’s restoration designs. This fuller understanding empowers the reader to grasp God’s plans with clarity, hope, and vision.
In contrast, the New Creation Model embraces a comprehensive and multi-dimensional vision of God’s intentions, not only for humanity, but for all creation. And it presents eternal life as vibrant life on a restored earth in God’s presence with social and cultural activities.
In his book, The New Creation Model, Michael Vlach offers a compelling case for the New Creation Model as the biblical and holistic paradigm for understanding God’s restoration designs. This fuller understanding empowers the reader to grasp God’s plans with clarity, hope, and vision.
415 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 9, 2023
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March 11, 2024
Eternity Made Tangible
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is even tempted with thinking that eternity will be some kind of vague amorphous monastic existence playing harps singing the same 3 line chorus. The author demonstrates from Bible passages that eternity will be a tangible existence interacting with a perfected physical earth. This includes interacting with God and other people. It will include other cultures based in nations one of which is Israel, interacting with animals, owning homes and farms, producing art, music, and technology, raising and eating food and drink, etc all to fulfill the original Edenic mandate given to Adam to subdue and rule the earth for God’s glory. This will start with the 1000 year millennium inaugurated with Jesus’ second coming and extend into the eternal state. This will be a rich material existence interacting with God’s creation using our resurrected bodies in tangible ways that will honor God for all eternity. That will be an eternity worth waiting for!
I highly recommend this book to anyone who is even tempted with thinking that eternity will be some kind of vague amorphous monastic existence playing harps singing the same 3 line chorus. The author demonstrates from Bible passages that eternity will be a tangible existence interacting with a perfected physical earth. This includes interacting with God and other people. It will include other cultures based in nations one of which is Israel, interacting with animals, owning homes and farms, producing art, music, and technology, raising and eating food and drink, etc all to fulfill the original Edenic mandate given to Adam to subdue and rule the earth for God’s glory. This will start with the 1000 year millennium inaugurated with Jesus’ second coming and extend into the eternal state. This will be a rich material existence interacting with God’s creation using our resurrected bodies in tangible ways that will honor God for all eternity. That will be an eternity worth waiting for!
April 19, 2025
outstanding theology
This is an extremely thorough examination of all the possible views of biblical eschatology and conclusively demonstrates the tangible nature of physical, resurrected bodies, living both in the millennium and in the eternal kingdom, on earth and in the presence of God forever.
This is an extremely thorough examination of all the possible views of biblical eschatology and conclusively demonstrates the tangible nature of physical, resurrected bodies, living both in the millennium and in the eternal kingdom, on earth and in the presence of God forever.
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