Now that's a title to attract clicks!
The lyrics in question are (from Amazing Grace (My Chains Are Gone) ):
The earth shall soon dissolve like snowThe sun forbear to shineBut God, who called me here belowWill be forever mine, will be forever mineYou are forever mine
They aren't Christian!
Well, maybe I'm reading too much into them, but they strike me as having a definite neoplatonic flavour (neoplatonic eschatology is not a Good Thing!).
The earth shall not 'soon dissolve like snow' and the sun forebear to shine.
And the following lines seem to envisage a disembodied 'heaven'.
No, not Christian.
God promises a New Heaven and a New Earth! We will be embodied with 'spiritual bodies'.
Revelation 21.
The story of the Bible is the re-creation of the world where we his people are finally conformed to his image and Christ's triumph over sin is consummated.
The New Jerusalem comes down from heaven to earth as the great marker of renewal!
We will be forever his!
Perhaps we should sing;
The earth shall soon dissolve like snowas God makes all anewand we shall live before his faceand always know his joyand always know his joy.
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