Quotes from Edward William Fudge

God has appointed that each human being should live one life, die one death and pass through one judgment for the life once lived. Therefore Jesus Christ also lived one life, died one death and God judged the life Christ had lived. Finding it pleasing in every respect, God certified his verdict by raising Christ from the dead. Because of Jesus' one life, one death and one judgment, God accepts the "many" who now eagerly wait for him to return bringing salvation. UNPACKING

Our author envisions reality in terms of an eternal realm presently invisible to our earthly senses, and a temporary realm we can now see and touch but that will soon pass away.

Throughout the New Testament, "faith" means active trust and reliance.

From the beginning, God intended for men and women to shine with dignity in their role as caretakers of the rest of creation.

Some Christians read Hebrews and conclude that steadfastness makes us God's house. Other Christians (including me) read Hebrews and conclude that steadfastness confirms that we are God's house. Either way the outcome is the same: saving faith trusts and obeys until the very end. Reaching the destination infallibly validates the pilgrim's quest and authenticates the pilgrim's profession.

The invisible realities predated the visible universe which the invisible God spoke into being by his word.

For the believer, faith is an organ of spiritual perception more dependable than the physical senses of hearing and of sight. 11:2

But you have come to Mount Zion and to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, and to innumerable angels in festive gathering, 23 to the assembly of the firstborn who are enrolled in heaven,