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Plato or Asor Aristotle?
Reformers are trying to give biblical answers to mediaeval questions. The danger is they're actually giving platonic answers, he says. Instead of resurrection, you have oh whil Jesus was taken up into heaven from where he appeared and then we're going to be taken up into Heaven as well. And that's the real thing, seeing god in heaven. He thinks it saps the life and energy from the gospel of jesus. It means that instead of saying, no. Jesus taught us to pray for god's kingdom to come on earth as in heaven,. Bu, by what right are you stripping that out of the central prayer of our faith? That's never the mission