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It isn’t that, like suicide bombers, people who believe in the resurrection are more cheerful about dying for the cause because they are happy to leave this present world and escape into a glorious future. It is, rather, that people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.
Surprised by Hope
N. T. Wright
The jibe only works in a world where heaven and earth are assumed to be detached from each other, having nothing to do with each other. But in the Bible heaven and earth are made for each other. They are the twin interlocking spheres of God’s single created reality. You really understand earth only when you are equally familiar with heaven. You really know God and share his life only when you understand that he is the creator and lover of earth just as much as of heaven.
Surprised by Hope
N. T. Wright
More than that: Those who make them are like them; so are all who trust in them. (v. 8) They are the ones who champion anxiety and affirm restlessness. The adherents to the gods of restlessness find such a predatory society normal. And then into our midst comes this other unexpected voice from outside the Pharonic system: “Let my people go!” (Exod. 5:1).
Sabbath as Resistance, New Edition With Study Guide
Walter Brueggemann
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