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Expectation And Reality
Are you familiar with the “Expectation vs. Reality” meme? It usually consists of two pictures. The first shows what you hope something will look like or how you expect it to turn out. That is the expectation. The second picture, labeled reality, shows what actually happened. The contrast is often hilarious because the real result falls far short of what was promised. In most cases, reality leaves…
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What is the difference between heaven and the new heavens and new earth?
Paradiso, Canto 34 by Gustav Doré, 1868. From arthistoryproject.com A few years ago I was asked the following questions: “What is the difference between the current heaven and the new heaven described in Revelation 21? Is current heaven not perfect?” While I shared a brief off-the-cuff answer in the moment, I’ve come up with a more thorough answer after recent study. Here’s what I’ve…
Who am I - what I believe no 5
Who am I – what I believe no 5
Who I am – what I believe no 5 is the next video in my series – covering Jesus and the Kingdom of God.
I believe in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. It has become “fashion” to minimise and even reject the physical resurrection of Jesus on the basis that “we have gained more modern knowledge and know that it is not possible”. But for God everything is possible, yes, also the impossible. Without…
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The last enemy ...
The last enemy …
The last enemy to be destroyed is death
Harry Potter p. 328
1 Cor 15:26
Hallows, not Horcruxes…….
“It doesn’t mean defeating death in the way the Death Eaters mean it, Harry,” said Hermione, her voice gentle. “It means… you know… living beyond death. Living after death.”
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In light of the resurrection, what exactly are believers to devote themselves to? One particular interpretation reads this verse in the light of the impact that the resurrection has on the doctrine of creation.
Some still appeal to the Bible in support of purgatory, but they appeal in vain. There is a famous passage in 2 Maccabees 12:39-45 where some who have died in battle are found to have been secret idolaters, whereupon Judas Maccabeus and his followers offer prayers and sacrifices on their behalf to make sure that they will come to share in the resurrection. This passage does indeed envisage an intermediate state: the resurrection has not yet happened, and some who (it was hoped) would attain it were found to have committed sin that had not yet been atoned for. But this isn't 'getting out of purgatory'; it's a matter of ensuring that, though all alike are in the intermediate state, those ones will rise again (not 'go to heaven', we note) to enjoy God's new world when it comes. The books of the Maccabees are, of course, in the Apocrypha; but the early Christians would in any case have replied that 'the blood of Jesus, God's son, cleanses us from all sin' (1 John 1.7). If any retrospective action were needed, it would be, at the most, baptism for those who had died unbaptised, though the single passage where that strange practice is mentioned (1 Corinthians 15:29) continues to be much disputed. Attempts to find other proof-texts are unconvincing at best and embarrassingly fanciful at worst.
Tom Wright, For All The Saints, p. 29.
