The Immortality of the Soul Is a Late Addition to Biblical Canon

Bodily resurrection or immortality of the soul is sort of a late addition to biblical canon essentially. It's seen as growing out of the Israel idea of good and justice and creation and embodied life within it. NT Wright talks about this a lot so they kind of gradually got there got to a point of like oh maybe this isn't just we die and nothing happens do you think that comes from? "I need things to be put in a box like I need not need," he says.

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