I don't know if he came up with it, but N.T. Wright has used the line, "going to heaven is great, but it's not the end of the world". And in saying that I took him to be affirming the same thing as Albert Martin when he said that the object of the Christian's hope is not the intermediate state but the resurrection.

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Vanities and disguises have covered us, and thereby we are naked; licenciousness hath inflam'd us, and thereby we are frozen; voluptuousness hath fed us, and thereby we are sterved, the fancies and traditions of men have taught and instructed us, and thereby we are ignorant.
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