Featured NT Wright false teacher?

As you keep telling everyone else, "Read the book."

 

So, you can make an excuse but nobody else can?

 

Who is Todd?

 

Does NT Wright directly impact you or your ministry? If not, why worry about him?

 

Figured as much.

 

So, are you admitting you were wrong for repeatedly telling him to read the book instead of answering his questions and defending your position?

 

First, N.T. Wright did not invent the NPP. Second, depending on what you mean by "heaven", he may be right.

i found the book interesting and often biblically correct as it addresses common tradition.

 

Soul sleep is not all that new. I disagree with Wright on that issue. I understand there are many scriptures that speak of those who "sleep in Jesus" but I understand that to mean the body, not the soul. I believe the soul is "absent from the body, present with the Lord."

But for the vast body of Christian tradition Wright is pretty orthodox (or as orthodox as an Anglican can be).

My concern about the New Perspective is that it can be seen to weaken Sola Gratia.

 

When Christians die they are with Christ. But insofar as "going to heaven"...well, what do you mean by "Heaven"? If you mean the "streets of gold" the new Jerusalem, the gates of pearl and all that....then no. I do not see any passage that supports that tradition.

In fact, N.T. Wright is correct. Heaven is not some place in the sky, but it is a redeemed and reconciled earth where God will dwell with man. We don't go "up to God", God comes down to us (it's a new creation).

 

I agree. Wright gets a bum rap much of the time (sometimes deserved, some times not so much deserved).

 

Read the book.

 

But isn't the Eternal City called the "Heavenly City" and doesn't it "come down from Heaven?"

If so, could the streets of gold and the gates of pearl already exist in Heaven?