
#149 Can we trust the Christmas story? Responding to Bart Ehrman
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The Ascension of the Son of Man
In the biblical worldview, heaven and earth are meant to join together. To say that Jesus is now in heaven is to make a statement about the true temple being now Jesus own human body. The idea of a cloud receiving him is rather like the transfiguration whether it was a cloud and a voice from the cloud. And I just think we have to lighten up about that, including all those wonderful stained glass windows which have two feet sticking down on a cloud. We'll come to that another time, but we'll put a pin in that for the moment. Okay. How about one last question as we draw to the end of today's podcast, Thomas in Washington State, number of
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