I remember how enjoyable it was to read Spinoza, the kindly Dutchman with fairy tale propensities. That everything should be one substance ran counter to the investigative ideas that surged through the centuries - earth, air, fire, water, atom as the one thing that constituted the primary “building block”. Somehow the human mind didn’t think “a Creator”, just as it still does not.

But God spoke to many men through His Holy Spirit for many years, men who recorded His message of prophets promising a Messiah needed to save us from our sin of unbelief, and then the fulfillment of that promise in the virgin birth, life, crucifixion and resurrection of Jesus, God’s Son who accepted the penalty and paid the price for that unbelief so that all who believed might have eternal life. It’s the greatest love story ever told.

We who believe are still promised a perfect creation, an eternal life without tears without sin, with God, when we leave this earth. If we had our way, none would stay behind.