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#172 Is the World doomed? (replay)

Ask NT Wright Anything

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The Importance of God's Sovereignty Over Creation

Prescott: It's not hard to see that this is bad theology, but it's not quite clear to me what exactly would be good theology. I've often said all our language about the future is a set of signposts pointing into a fog. They may be true signposts, but they don't tell you it's not a photographic description of what it'll be like as we get there. So somehow we have to hold those two in sort of tension. The second one gives us this secure faith that the God who raised Jesus is going to make all things well at the end. That's whistling in the dark first and then praying for new creation later.

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