DP,

            Wow, you really put a lot of studying into that article.

You made a number of great points.

I had wondered about something after reading what you wrote:

“And, in the meantime, we have Christians with the belief and teaching that the 'goal' of the Christian life is to go to heaven when you die, instead of hell. That is NOT the goal of the Christian life however. Yes, for sure, when a Christian dies they go to be with the Lord..........but that is not the goal.”

            …

“Well, if it is, that is kind of an endless/ timeless plan that causes the earth and this life to be meaningless until dying and ''going to heaven'', the supposed goal of the Christian life.
Yet this is all most know and is all most preachers preach!”

 

I had never read or heard anyone saying that, so I went to check out SermonAudio, which has a gazillion sermons uploaded there.

I did a site search on goal, and got quite a few hits.

However, it appeared, at least to me, that in those cases, the goal referred to was not going to heaven when one dies.

Maybe people mention what you said, but necessarily in messages whose title referred to that explicitly.

I was wondering if you could point me to where this commonly being taught, written, or preached.

Churches with different eschatologies, might very well come at what you said, very differently.

Is that typically taught in certain mainline Protestant churches, or is it taught primarily taught in various Pentecostal & Charismatic churches?

I ask, because those who are Amillennial approach these things very differently from those who are Premillennial.

                        Thank you,

                                    Gino