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(Anglican) Bishop: Christians don't go to heaven
WorldNetDaily ^ | 2/10/08 | WorldNetDaily

Posted on 02/10/2008 1:46:46 PM PST by wagglebee

A bishop described as "one of the most formidable figures in the world of Christian thought" is now challenging the widely held belief that Christians go to heaven when they die.

N.T. "Tom" Wright, the fourth most senior cleric in the Church of England who has been praised for his staunch defense of the literal resurrection of Jesus Christ, has published a new book in which he says people do not ascend to God's dwelling place. Instead, God will be coming back to Earth.

"Never at any point do the Gospels or Paul say Jesus has been raised, therefore we are we are all going to heaven," Wright told Time Magazine. "I've often heard people say, 'I'm going to heaven soon, and I won't need this stupid body there, thank goodness.' That's a very damaging distortion, all the more so for being unintentional."

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TOPICS: Catholic; Mainline Protestant; Theology
KEYWORDS: anglican; coe; europeanchristians; fv; heaven; heresy; npp; resurrection; theology; tomwright
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Unbelievable!
1 posted on 02/10/2008 1:46:50 PM PST by wagglebee
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To: Huber; newheart; sionnsar; NYer; Coleus; narses; Salvation; Pyro7480; tutstar; WKB; ...

General Christianity Ping.

We’re coming up on Easter, so Time magazine has found a bishop to say that Christians don’t actually go to Heaven.


2 posted on 02/10/2008 1:49:12 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: wagglebee

I’m going to be extra careful not to die just yet. I want to make sure this stuff is all resolved by the time I’m ready to pass.


3 posted on 02/10/2008 1:53:20 PM PST by jdm (You must have cookies enabled to log-in.)
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To: wagglebee
Where did they find the Anglican Church Leaders? England?

/s

4 posted on 02/10/2008 1:57:54 PM PST by Red_Devil 232 (VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
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To: ahadams2; Tennessee Nana; QBFimi; Tailback; MBWilliams; showme_the_Glory; blue-duncan; ...
I'd be real careful when it comes to N.T. Wright.

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5 posted on 02/10/2008 2:13:56 PM PST by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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To: wagglebee

Not that I claim to be any Christian theologian, but it’s always been my impression that in Christianity, the dead sleep until they are resurrected on the day of judgement to either go to Heaven or to Hell....

Isn’t that what he is saying?


6 posted on 02/10/2008 2:18:32 PM PST by thundrey
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To: wagglebee

Next thing they’ll be saying is that we get the 72 virgins.


7 posted on 02/10/2008 2:19:34 PM PST by neodad (USS Vincennes (CG 49) "Checkmate Cruiser")
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To: wagglebee
"Never at any point do the Gospels or Paul say Jesus has been raised, therefore we are we are all going to heaven," Wright told Time Magazine.

You would think that he would have read Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. It seemed to me like all 4 accounts mentioned that Jesus was resurrected. Of course, he's the 4th most senior cleric in the Church of England so what do I know?

8 posted on 02/10/2008 2:21:24 PM PST by xJones (Mohammed (police be upon him))
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To: jdm
"I’m going to be extra careful not to die just yet. I want to make sure this stuff is all resolved by the time I’m ready to pass"

LOL!!!

9 posted on 02/10/2008 2:21:25 PM PST by T Minus Four (Acts 8:37)
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To: thundrey; All
it’s always been my impression that in Christianity, the dead sleep until they are resurrected on the day of judgement to either go to Heaven or to Hell....

39 And one of those robbers who were hanged, blasphemed him, saying: If thou be Christ, save thyself and us. 40 But the other answering, rebuked him, saying: Neither dost thou fear God, seeing thou art condemned under the same condemnation?

41 And we indeed justly, for we receive the due reward of our deeds; but this man hath done no evil. 42 And he said to Jesus: Lord, remember me when thou shalt come into thy kingdom. 43 And Jesus said to him: Amen I say to thee, this day thou shalt be with me in paradise.
-- Luke 23:39-43

10 posted on 02/10/2008 2:26:48 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: xJones

His wording is a little confusing. He does acknowledge the Resurrection; however, he dismisses the idea that we also go to Heaven.

However, to accept his premise as legitimate, this also means that nobody goes to Hell.


11 posted on 02/10/2008 2:29:13 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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To: thundrey
“,,,Isn’t that what he is saying?”

Yes. There was a post on FR (I think it was FR) several days ago on this topic and the entire interview was posted. He joined everything he said with Scriptural notation and was right on target. These excerpts today are misleading.

12 posted on 02/10/2008 2:32:48 PM PST by elpadre
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To: thundrey
“,,,Isn’t that what he is saying?”

Yes. There was a post on FR (I think it was FR) several days ago on this topic and the entire interview was posted. He joined everything he said with Scriptural notation and was right on target. These excerpts today are misleading.

13 posted on 02/10/2008 2:32:57 PM PST by elpadre
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To: xJones

“never ...therefore we are we are all going to heaven”

read it again


14 posted on 02/10/2008 2:37:00 PM PST by elpadre
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To: wagglebee; sionnsar

“Unbelievable!”

Not at all. In fact it is quite patristic.

“However, to accept his premise as legitimate, this also means that nobody goes to Hell.”

No, again, not at all. That’s Originism and its not at all what Bishop Wright is speaking of. Orthodoxy does not teach of people going to some “place” called heaven, it speaks of theosis. As for Hell, well, maybe its a place or maybe it isn’t, but the damned suffer eternal torment by being scourged by the fire of God’s Love. I don;t think the locale of the torment is particularly important, though maybe the Western mind, attuned to such notions by various artistic works and Augustinian theology need it.

Bishop Wright is hardly my favorite Western theologian, but I might just buy this book.


15 posted on 02/10/2008 2:40:49 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis

Read the passage from Luke that I posted in #10. What is the “Paradise” that the robber would be with the Lord if not Heaven?


16 posted on 02/10/2008 2:44:11 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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“What is the “Paradise” that the robber would be with the Lord if not Heaven?”

Probably the “Bossom of Abraham”, the place of the dead, the bonds of which Christ shattered when “Hell took a body, and discovered God.
It took earth, and encountered Heaven.
It took what it saw, and was overcome by what it did not see.”


17 posted on 02/10/2008 2:50:01 PM PST by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: wagglebee
We’re coming up on Easter, so Time magazine has found a bishop to say that Christians don’t actually go to Heaven.

The usual Easter message is for some apostate bishop, theologian, or cleric to say "we don't know if Jesus rose bodily from the dead", so this is a bit of novelty for once...

18 posted on 02/10/2008 2:50:41 PM PST by Alex Murphy ("Therefore the prudent keep silent at that time, for it is an evil time." - Amos 5:13)
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To: elpadre
He joined everything he said with Scriptural notation and was right on target. These excerpts today are misleading.

That's what I figured.

19 posted on 02/10/2008 2:52:53 PM PST by Tax-chick ("Political zombies need brains, but they hunger only for taxes." ~ NicknamedBob)
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To: Alex Murphy
this is a bit of novelty for once...

Good point!

20 posted on 02/10/2008 2:53:55 PM PST by wagglebee ("A political party cannot be all things to all people." -- Ronald Reagan, 3/1/75)
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