I like the idea of location change. I think that gets at the idea of being saved both from an ultimate destination and being saved to a new life that can be lived now. The real point of salvation I believe is a new life to be lived now with the benefit of life in heaven forever with our Father. I will have to look into the writings of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.

Your point, Chuck, about using progressive revelation is an interesting one and I would like to hear more from you about that (I know this is almost 4 months from when you posted it, but I hope you are still there). Wouldn’t you say that there would still have to be some kind of filter for us to know it was revelation? The scriptures do tell us that God speaks to us through his Holy Spirit. The Spirit does tend to use the scriptures as a primary means of communication and allows us to filter the things that come our way. Otherwise, how would we know anything was from God or not? Feelings or hunches are not that reliable. I am not saying here that everything we observe can be confirmed by the scriptures. The bible is not a scientific text book, encylcopedia, dictionary, medical guide, etc. But it does give us a filter or worldview through which to process the data we receive from progressive revelation. So how does this work? Would the text give us the anchor points creating the field in which we can speculate and/or recieve progressive revelation? Or, is that the point at all? We see alot of tensions in scripture that we can’t comprehend this side of heaven (predestination/freewill; Fully God/fully man, etc.) So maybe we aren’t supposed to figure it all out. I think we do need to contextualize the gospel but what changes and what stays the same?