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What do Christians hope for? To leave this wicked world and go to ‘heaven’? For the ‘kingdom of God’ to grow gradually on earth? What do we mean by the ‘resurrection of the body’, and how does that fit with the popular image of sitting on clouds playing harps? And how does all this affect the way we live in the here and now? Tom Wright, one of our leading theologians, addresses these questions...

me by a friend who works with grieving children, and who described this as ‘one of the worst books for children’ and said, ‘I hope you find this awful book helpful in what not to say’! It is indeed a prime example of that genre. The truth of what the Bible teaches is very, very different at several levels. It comes as something of a shock when people are told what is in fact the case: that there is very little in the Bible about ‘going to heaven when you die’, and not a lot about a post-mortem hell
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