To whoever inherits my Bibles… good luck trying to decipher my notes in each one. (I’ll also leave my Logos password and log in so you can try and decipher all that as well.)
And I also have hundreds of notebooks to decipher… So… good luck.
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I love to see a bible well marked up. 🙂
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And this is a newer Bible for me. LOL
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Post another photo of it when you’ve had it a few months. 😀
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“Heaven is a dimension, NOT a location.”
“Going out to meet the emperor, NOT going up in a cloud.”
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I should have blotted out the notes. I’m really surprised someone else could read them. This wasn’t the point of my post and I’d rather not get into something far more involved in the comments section. I would say it comes from NT Wright’s commentaries on the passage and refer you there. It’s the “New Testament for Everyone” Commentary Series.
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No way, Man! THIS is lot’s more FUN! C’mon, Dan. They’re YOU’re notes. Let’s start something. If you don’t want to get into it in the comments section of this post, how about writing a new post on whatever those notes mean to you. It can’t be more disturbing than me referring to our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ as “my possibly imaginary Friend,” can it? Besides, could it be that you subconsciously wanted those two notes to be read. What writer doesn’t want that? 🙂 https://thehappynarcissist.wpcomstaging.com/2022/05/08/what-a-friend/
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Here are NT Wright’s comments:
When Paul talks of Jesus ‘descending’, he doesn’t suppose that Jesus is physically above us at the moment. Heaven, where Jesus is, isn’t another location within our space, but another dimension. The language of ‘descending’ is the risky metaphor—all metaphors are risky when talking of the future—that Paul here chooses. Elsewhere (e.g. Colossians 3:4) he can speak simply of Jesus ‘appearing’, emerging from the presently hidden world of heaven, as heaven and earth are at last united, visibly present to one another. Here he builds into the picture, confusingly for later readers, an echo of Moses going up the mountain, the trumpet-blast as he is given the law, and coming down again.
So when Paul talks of Christians ‘being snatched up among the clouds’, he is again not thinking of a literal vertical ascent. The language here is taken from Daniel 7, where ‘one like a son of man’ goes up on the clouds as he is vindicated by God after his suffering—a wonderful image not least for people like the Thessalonians who were suffering persecution and awaiting God’s vindication. And their ‘meeting’ with the Lord doesn’t mean they will then be staying in mid-air with him. They are like Roman citizens in a colony, going out to meet the emperor when he pays them a state visit, and then accompanying him back to the city itself.
Paul’s purpose here is not speculation, but comfort. We, for different days, may need to change the imagery to make the point. We may find it more intelligible to speak of Christ’s ‘appearing’—as Paul himself does elsewhere—than his downward ‘descent’. But his point is that we can be confident in God’s future purposes for those Christians who have died. There will be grief, of course; but there is also hope. There will come a day when God will put all wrongs to rights, when all grief will turn to joy. Jesus will be central to that day, which will end with the unveiling of God’s new world. There, those who have already died, and those who are still alive, will both alike be given renewed bodies to serve God joyfully in his new creation.Wright, T. (2004). Paul for Everyone: Galatians and Thessalonians (pp. 125–126). Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.
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