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Originally Posted by Ivanhoe he is saying the exact same thing that Anthony Hoekema is saying: We live forever in the renewed earth. Heaven is not a neo-platonic abstraction where we airily float on clouds discussing Plato and the Confession.
This is also Russell Moore's view at SBTS. | Are they teaching that we have a conscience existance with God after death? Maybe I have misunderstood him. I will read it again. I had the impression he was teaching some kind of soul sleep. |
No, he is not teaching soul sleep. I have only read the Time interview, not the book, but I thought it may be an important issue to discuss.
I know that the fact that Tom Wright said it is enough for some people to assume it must be heretical.
But we would all agree (I think we would
) that the final state is not often taught about in our churches. And what passes for teaching/preaching on this topic in the broader evangelical church is terrible.
It is a fact, that the average 'born again" christian believes that the final resting place for believers in some cloud castle type of heaven. If you ask "what happens after our bodies are ressurected?) you mostly get blank stares.
The fact that the Bishop has writen on this subject means that this will be THE ISSUE that people will be talking about in the church in the comming few years, and we had better get ready. Count on it that some heretics are already writing up the ancient heresies for a new generation. After all this was in Time magazine, this will be a hot topic.