Summary Of Nicholas Thomas Wright's Surprised By Hope

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In the book Surprised by Hope the author, Nicholas Thomas Wright, writes an interesting book that makes Christians think differently and deeper about ideas that usually seam the simple to understand. Wright makes you think outside the box. The most interesting parts of the book relate to the resurrection and life after death, most Christians would think they understand what is in store after this life time, but I would challenge them to read Wrights book and try to understand where he is coming from, he makes a lot of valid points. I am going to bring up the points of what happens after death, what our “heaven” is going to be and what it is not going to be, and about the assumptions that a lot of Christians, including myself, slip into when …show more content…

We are not going to go anywhere for heaven, as Write states in his book “Indicates that this will take place within the context of God’s victorious transformation of the whole cosmos” (101). When People think of the word “Transformation” it is thought as our bodily transformation, not the earth. Think about this, God has made this earth for us. He gave us this world to live in, why would he get rid of it, God is not just going to scrape this earth we live on, but he will make into the heaven we think off. He will not only reconstruct our bodies, but he will make the whole earth perfect again. The Garden of Eden was on this earth, heaven will be like the Garden, on this earth. God named us care takers of this earth, we need to stop thinking of heaven as some faraway place Jesus is going to bring us too, but Jesus will come here, and as Write states, He will not come and just improve it, but he will come and make into the perfect earth that represents the glory of God. This is hard for a lot of people to wrap their heads around. Everyone wants to think about leaving this world …show more content…

Is it going to be another garden with animals everywhere just as it was with Adam and Eve? I don’t think so. God made people, He blessed us with brilliant minds. God likes us thinking and working for his glory. I think heaven will have magnificent sky scrapers, statures with beauty we can only imagine. We hear all the time about how roads of gold and rivers of milk and honey, but it is important to realize we will not have rivers with milk and honey flowing through them. God wanted to use words that would resonate with his people. He wanted to paint them a picture. Back than that would be the best sight a person could imagine, that’s how heaven will be. For me, I don’t think of milk and honey, but I think of buildings, glass, roads everywhere, mountains, fields, rivers. This is my beauty and I do not think God will substitute one person’s beauty because it doesn’t match up with someone else’s. Nowhere in the Bible does it say God hates cities. People seem to forget that heaven is a place that we will spend worshiping God. Worshiping God does not mean signing to him all day every day. People worship God in so many different ways that means heaven is going to be so amazing and different than anything we have ever thought about. We all have an idea of heaven, but we truly don’t know what is in store for

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