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▲ 010ED67913 19 hours ago

can you elaborate on this? what do you mean that the christian view includes heaven having “work” in it?

▲bitwize 11 hours ago | parent [-]

One commonly cited piece of scriptural evidence is Micah 4, in which it is said that when God judges the nations and war is abolished, "they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks". The tools of war will be useless, but they will be converted into the tools of work remaining to be done. Furthermore, in Genesis 2 Adam was told to work and care for the land in Eden; insofar is the coming everlasting life is a restoration of the edenic state, it's implied that work will be involved then too. Presumably the work in Eden was easy and pleasurable; grueling labor only came after the Fall when Adam and Eve were driven out of the garden.