The Bible says “God made Man in His image and in His likeness.” Adam was the first son of God. He was made in God’s image. The Creator formed him from the dust of the earth and breathed into him the life that made him “a living soul” – a living human being. He was the visible image of the invisible God.
Adam tarnished that image by sinning, but Jesus restored it, and through his resurrection became “the firstborn of [a new] creation”. Those who acknowledge him as their Lord are “new creations” and are destined to rise from death and live beyond time in eternity. Jesus was “the firstborn among many sons”.
The Old Creation is primitive compared to the New Creation. Would you like to live forever as a “new creation” in Christ? Then ask God to forgive you for the sake of Jesus, who died for your sins, and then identify with the Lord’s death by being baptized in water and rising from it to “walk in newness of life”. Then Jesus will baptize you in the Holy Spirit.
You will have exited the old and entered the new. The next step is to become a part of a local church fellowship, and with it move forward toward the time when we will all live with God forever in “new heavens and a new earth”.
Those who scoff at this are gullible enough to believe that they will one day rocket to the Planet Mars or another planet in our solar system. The fact that they would not live long enough to arrive seems not to have entered their minds. Or how much oxygen would be needed for all on board to breathe. Or how boring the trip would be (“Are we there yet?”) Maybe they could be snap-frozen and so arrive fresh and ready for whatever might await them.
The Lord Jesus has pioneered the way for all who believe in his resurrection and his ascension into heaven, and after bringing earth into subjection to his rule, “new heavens and a new earth” will be our forever habitat.
Some will think of this as just fanciful, yet those same doubters think of interplanetary — even intergalactic — travel as humanly achievable! I wish them “the best of British”!