Fundamental Beliefs of Seventh-day Adventists

physical ecosystems that many can scarcely
imagine a connection between this world and the
paradise portrayed in Genesis 1 and 2. Now a
constant struggle for survival characterizes life.
Even the life of the believer, who must do battle
with the world, the flesh, and the devil, does not
accurately portray God's original plan. In what God
has planned for the redeemed--a world untouched
by Satan's influence, a world in which God's
purpose rules alone--we have a truer representation
of His character.
It Draws Us to God
Ultimately, the Bible describes the new earth in
order to attract the nonreligious person to Christ.
One person, on hearing that "the earth restored to
its Eden beauty, as real as 'the earth that now is,'
was to be the final home of the saints," where they
would be "free from all sorrow, pain, and death,
and know and see each other fact-to-face,"
strenuously objected.
"Why," said he, "that cannot be: that is just
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