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(Say the Jesus Creed<\/a> morning and evening during Lent.)
\nWhat is the future hope for the individual? What does Tom Wright, in Surprised by Hope<\/a> $\"\"$ <\/em>, mean by the \u201credemption of our bodies\u201d? (chp 10)
\nWrightSaid: \u201ca new type of bodily existence\u201d (147). This is the burden of this book.
\nIn essence, he believes in a two-stage postmortem journey \u2014 into heaven (presence of God) and then resurrection for the new heavens and new earth.o
\nResurrection, in one of Tom\u2019s most innovative exprssions, is \u201clife after life after death.\u201d He could add \u201cembodied life after life after death.\u201d Here it is, from Phil 3:20-21: \u201che Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body<\/em>.\u201d That\u2019s the hope many are surprised by.
\nThe \u201cmany mansions\u201d of John 14 refer to Paradise, the intermediate state. \u201cA temporary halt on the journey\u201d (150).
\nHeaven is where \u201cGod\u2019s purposes for the future are stored up\u201d (151). So, in commenting on 1 Peter 1 about things being stored in heaven for us, Wright says they are not stored so we can go there and get them, but they are being kept there and God will bring them to reality on earth: If, he says to a friend, \u201cI\u2019ve kept some beer in the fridge for you,\u201d he does not mean that the friend has to climb into the fridge to get the beer \u2026 he\u2019ll fetch them and give them to the friend. (Tom, I\u2019ll have a Yorkshire bitter while you\u2019re at it.)
\n1 Cor 15 is about a present kind of body vs. a future kind of body, a corruptible physicality vs. an incorruptible physicality.
\nWho? All people.
\nWhere? On the new earth.
\nWhat? A more solid, more real body.
\nWhy? To reign.
\nWhen? After the intermediate state, when Christ \u201cappears.\u201d
\nHow? A new creation, by the Spirit.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"