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Western Christians Have Misread Heaven
Published In The Christian Post

Many Christians in the West, N. T. Wright believes, have a fundamental misunderstanding of the very goal of their faith. 

Instead of seeing Christianity as the story of God renewing the whole cosmos — Heaven and Earth united — they have been taught to think of salvation primarily as a private escape plan: the soul departing for Heaven when the body dies. 

The result, according to the 77-year-old New Testament scholar, Pauline theologian and Anglican bishop, is not just a skewed theology of the afterlife, but a distorted understanding of everything from End Times prophecy to spiritual warfare.

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Lara Benschoter