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Jesus's resurrection is the beginning of God's new project not to snatch people away from earth to heaven but to colonize earth with the life of heaven. That, after all, is what the Lord's Prayer is about.

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N. T. Wright
Age: 76
Born: 1948
Born: November 1
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