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Do God take way your bond to nature before entering Heaven?

PloverWing

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The Christian view as reflected in the Apostles' Creed is that we look for bodily resurrection, not a disembodied future state. We don't have details about what the "new heaven and new earth" will look like, but Romans 8 talks about the healing of the creation, from which I gather that the future state will include a healed, perfected version of nature.
 
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There are huge themes in Scripture dealing with the difference between our Temporal economy and God's economy. Good descriptions often run in terms such as this Temporal being enveloped by, or swallowed up into, overwhelmed by, the Eternal. We are told that this present is but a vapor compared to the solid reality (my words) that is to come.

We also have every reason to discard notions that God, and the eternal is patterned after this life— No!, it is the other way around. My earthly father is a poor representation of our heavenly Father.

All that, (and a whole lot more I didn't say), is to say, that this nature probably doesn't well compare to what we will explore and enjoy there. The same question in other themes has been asked here: One not a few days ago was about sexuality, another was about loved ones and relationships.

I don't know if this will speak to your experience, but when I got in my truck and went exploring back roads in the woods, the exploring was a lot more fun, than after I bought a few topographical maps with 4WD trails, and other markers, and after I got a GPS. Similarly, when driving mountain roads, seeing a beautiful slope off on a mountainside, with smooth green grass and here and there a copse of trees and a treeline, and imagining exploring it, yet knowing that if I did so, it would probably be full of shards of rock that would tear up my shoes and ankles, and be nowhere as entertaining as I supposed, I usually would tell myself not to bother —I'd rather it be beautiful and fairy-tale-ish than to understand it too intimately. In Heaven, I think, we will have both, the one not lost for the other, but each multiplying the other.

The Bible compares the sufferings of this world with the pangs of childbirth, which a mother forgets for the joy that a child has come into the world, as the way of seeing what we will see in Heaven. How much more then, the delights of this world?
 
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All animals and humans are a bond to nature here on Earth to a certain degree, most love nature. I understand God is everywhere in nature, so he wouldn`t lack the prescence of nature. But what about people, wouldn`t they get sad over not being in nature?
Our love for our Father must exceed anything and anyone here on earth. We are not bonded to creation, only the Creator. This is the relationship between a Christian and God, to lay all things aside from this world. 1 John 2:15-16 warns against loving the world, stating: "Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world—the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life—is not of the Father but is of the world."
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All animals and humans are a bond to nature here on Earth to a certain degree, most love nature. I understand God is everywhere in nature, so he wouldn`t lack the prescence of nature. But what about people, wouldn`t they get sad over not being in nature?

The Christian hope is that God is going to heal, restore, and make new the whole of creation. Animals, plants, the dirt underneath our feet--all of it. We won't be less in nature in the future world, we'll be more in it.
 
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