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Death and the Afterlife: Biblical Perspectives on Ultimate Questions is unavailable, but you can change that!

Significant aspects of death and the afterlife continue to be debated among evangelical Christians. In this NSBT volume Paul Williamson surveys the perspectives of our contemporary culture and the biblical world, and then highlights the traditional understanding of the biblical teaching and the issues over which evangelicals have become increasingly polarized. Subsequent chapters explore the...

not enjoy our new and permanent dwelling before the last day). In other words, what we find in 2 Corinthians 5:1 is the present guarantee of a future acquisition; Paul says nothing here about the actual ‘move-in date’. The main argument against this, however, is that Paul undoubtedly alludes to our immediate post-mortem situation in the following paragraph where he speaks of being ‘away from the body and at home with the Lord’ (2 Cor. 5:8). Thus some take the latter, being ‘at home with the Lord’,
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