
#145 Should I use the word ’heaven’? Will we know everything in the new creation?
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What's the Jewish Idea of the Resurrection?
I don't think this is a good example of any type of pre understanding of a resurrected Messiah in the Jewish sense. The resurrection with the capital R, if you like, isn't coming back into this life and living it again. It's going on through into a new bodily life, which will not die again. And I was going to say that there are other resurrections that take place in the gospel, specifically the ones that Jesus performs on Lazarus and others. But can we assume that the type of resurrection that that involves was understood to be quite different to the sort of resurrection? Oh, yes. You've got it in Acts 23 when Peter's been released from prison and turns up
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