Is it wrong for Christians to use in vitro fertilization?

That's just one of the questions we'll be answering on today's edition of Core Christianity.

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First up today, here's a voicemail from one of our listeners. This came in from Jason.

My question today is, if heaven and earth are going to be destroyed, why make a new heaven and a new earth?

If after everything is destroyed, we will either be in heaven or in hell, who's going to inhabit the new earth?

That's my question. Thank you.

Hey, brother, thanks for that question. So, when we die as believers, as those who are in Christ,

our souls are immediately in the presence of the Lord, perfected in holiness. We refer to this as the

intermediate state. Intermediate because heaven, that is, you know, disembodied bliss in the

presence of God, is not the ultimate resting place for believers. What we're looking forward to

is the new creation, the resurrection of our bodies that Paul talked about in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 and the restoration of the entire cosmos, we might say. So salvation is not just about the forgiveness of sins. That's at the very heart of it, But Jesus, through his redemptive work, was also restoring

the very creation that had fallen. And Paul seems to refer to this in places like Romans chapter 8,

the creation groaning, longing for the revealing of the sons of God. And so the good news of the

gospel extends to every molecule in creation. We're looking

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