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Discover Different Christian Views on What Heaven Will Be Like. Christians from a variety of denominations and traditions are in middle of an important conversation about the final destiny of the saved. Scholars such as N. T. Wright and J. Richard Middleton have pushed back against the traditional view of heaven, and now some Christians are pushing back against them for fear that talk about the...

I have limited space, I will concentrate on those passages he cites in support of two prominent themes—the rapture and the intermediate state.2 As support for the rapture, Feinberg cites the classic text in 1 Thessalonians 4:13–18, which says that after the dead in Christ are raised at his coming, those who are alive “will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. And so we will be with the Lord forever” (1 Thess 4:17). In this passage
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