DevilsAdocate writes:
Not exactly the way I would have worded it. The Fall brought on a separation of our souls from God and eventually death to our physical bodies and that through salvation our immortal souls are saved, and after physical death our immortal souls in our new glorified bodies will live eternally in heaven.
I'd suggest that the Biblical message is that ultimately our glorified or resurrected bodies will live eternally in God's re-created world when all things on heaven and earth come together. For example Ephesians 1:10, Revelation 21:1-2, Isaiah 66 22-23 or as Jesus taught us to pray - Thy kingdom come on Earth as in Heaven.
The Bible teaches in essence that all creation will be resurrected and renewed, and so it isn't a ultimately a matter of heading off somewhere to Heaven but that ultimately Heaven comes to us renewing this world.
He has told you, O man, what is good ; And what does the LORD require of you But to do justice, to love kindness, And to walk humbly with your God.
Micah 6:8
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