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Greetings, Last night in our home group we were reading John
17. I had a bizarre thought. It says in 17:1, “After Jesus had
spoken these words, he looked up to heaven and said,
"Father, the hour has come…” What does it mean “he looked up to heaven”? Did Jesus believe it was a geographical
place? Was it just the Gospel
writer who believed this? Why, if
God is into the Bible being as literal and accurate as some suggest, did God
allow this kind of ancient thinking about both the nature of “heaven”
and the nature of the world (flat rather than round, etc) to be included in the
canon? As I sat at a mental distance from the discussion in
the room my mind raced off to all kinds of crazy places pondering that phrase… Regards, Bruce |
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