N.T. Wright on Heaven
Much of “traditional” Christianity gives the impression that God has these rather arbitrary rules about how you have to behave, and if you disobey them you go to hell, rather than to heaven. What the New Testament really says is God wants you to be a renewed human being helping him to renew his creation, and his resurrection was the opening bell. And when he returns to fulfil the plan, you won’t be going up there to him, he’ll be coming down here.
N.T. Wright, interviewed in TIME Magazine. I just got Wright’s new book, Surprised by Hope: Rethinking Heaven, the Resurrection, and the Mission of the Church, in the mail. I can’t wait to dive in to it.
