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According to Wright, participants in the early church understood that the ultimate goal wasn’t to die, leave their bodies behind, and float around like ghosts in heaven forever but rather to embody, anticipate, and work toward a new kingdom. What happened to a person in between death and resurrection remained a bit of a mystery, although the apostle Paul assured his fellow Christians that “to be absent from the body” is “to be present with the Lord.”
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