Conformed to the Image of Christ

As long as we view going to Heaven to live forever as the goal of our salvation, that Heaven is our eternal home, it is impossible to describe accurately the plan of redemption. The various unscriptural teachings that have been advanced recently, such as we automatically have acquired all the endowments of the fully mature Christian by accepting Christ, Jesus has done it all as today's "prophets" like to declare, assume that our goal is to go to Heaven.
If you remove residence in Heaven as being our goal, these unscriptural teachings lose their foundation.
There are at least two major goals of redemption. At first glance they may seem unrelated.
One is found in the Book of Romans:
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose. For those God foreknew he also predestined to be conformed to the likeness of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers. (Romans 8:28,29)
God's goal for us is that we might be conformed to the image of Jesus Christ so that Christ is the firstborn among many brothers.
The second major goal I would like to mention is found in the third chapter of the Book of Philippians:
I want to know Christ and the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of sharing in his sufferings, becoming like him in his death, and so, somehow, to attain to the resurrection from the dead. (Philippians 3:10,11)
"To attain to the resurrection from the dead." I used to stress that Paul was seeking to have a place in the first resurrection, the resurrection when Jesus next appears. However, as I consider the first goal, that of being conformed to the likeness of Christ, I wonder if both of these goals may be the same.