Questions about the difference between trusting your heart and trusting your human faculties to evaluate evidence, whether having a fear of death means you’re not a true Christian, and whether believers will spend eternity with the Lord on the new earth rather than in Heaven.

What’s the difference between trusting in your heart, which Scripture says not to do, and trusting your human faculties to evaluate evidence and determine what is true?

If the idea of death scares me, does that mean I’m not a true Christian?

Is it true that believers will spend eternity with the Lord on the new earth rather than in Heaven?