The biblical story doesn’t end with God whisking off a lucky few into a utopia in the sky. That’s a rumor that started with Plato and accidentally stuck in certain branches of the church, but it has nothing to do with Jesus. Jesus talks constantly about bringing heaven to earth, not getting people to heaven. His mission is not to get you into heaven; it’s to get heaven into you. Read every single recorded sermon in Acts, and you’ll notice a pattern: Not a single one focuses on salvation as a way to escape the fires of hell and book a room in a much more preferable location in the sky. Instead,
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