The New Testament Doesn’t Say What Most People Think It Does About Heaven - Word&Way

The New Testament Doesn’t Say What Most People Think It Does About Heaven

One of the central stories of the Bible, many people believe, is that there is a heaven and an earth and that human souls have been exiled from heaven and are serving out time here on earth until they can return. But that’s not what early Christians believed.

To understand what the first followers of Jesus believed about what happens after death, we need to read the New Testament in its own world — the world of Jewish hope, of Roman imperialism and of Greek thought.

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