At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, "Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven." It says that Chris… - N. T. Wright

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At no point do the resurrection narratives in the four Gospels say, "Jesus has been raised, therefore we are all going to heaven." It says that Christ is coming here, to join together the heavens and the Earth in an act of new creation.

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About N. T. Wright

N. T. Wright (born 1 December 1948) is a New Testament scholar and former Bishop of Durham in the Church of England. He has published academic works such as The New Testament and The People of God, Jesus and The Victory of God, and The Resurrection of the Son of God, along with writings aimed at a more popular readership, such as What St Paul Really Said and Simply Christian.

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Birth Name: Nicholas Thomas Wright
Alternative Names: Tom Wright
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The point of following Jesus isn't simply so that we can be sure of going to a better place than than this after we die. Our future beyond death is enormously important, but the nature of the Christian hope is such that it plays back into the present life. We're called, here and now, to be instruments of God's new creation, the world-put-to-rights which has already been launched by Jesus and of which Jesus's followers are supposed to be not simply beneficiaries but also agents.

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