Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife The Simple Truth / UCLA Douglas A. Jacoby 21 October 2012 What’s the Truth about Heaven and Hell? (2013) Hadrian’s Wall 122 AD Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife 12 Questions Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife 12 Questions + Q&A Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife 1. What kind of experience is heaven? Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife Boring? Nothing to do? Omniscient? Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife Relational Home > House Heaven, Hell & the Afterlife The extremes of a purely God-centered view of Heaven as endless contemplation of the Divine and a purely man-centered view of Heaven as unending theme park adventure with our earthly family and friends must both be rejected. In its place we must develop a Christ-centered view of eternal life in the New Heavens and New Earth, in which God dwells with the redeemed human race, in which a new extended divine ‘family’ of God enjoys God and each other forever. – Kenneth D. Boa and Robert M. Bowman, Jr., Sense and Nonsense about Heaven and Hell (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2007), 168-169.