IS FULLER's RICH MOUW SAYING HE BELIEVES IN PURGATORY ? "...This raises the theological question, of course, about the “intermediate state.” Tom Wright says he believes in that state. But he wants to make it clear that it is not the believer’s final destiny. At one point he makes his point by saying that “if we want to speak of ‘going to heaven when we die,’ we should be clear that this represents the first, and far less important, stage of a two-stage process. Resurrection isn’t life after death; it is life after life after death.” That is nicely said. I fully agree. What I don’t understand is how believing exactly that—if we want to talk about heaven as home, then this is how we should underst ...."
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“But we have this treasure in jars of clay to show that this all-surpassing power is from God and not from us…”