Will God Burn up the Earth? Which Anglican Church is right for me, and does Genesis 1 leave room for the "gap theory"?
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Will God Burn up the Earth? Which Anglican Church is right for me, and does Genesis 1 leave room for the "gap theory"?

B2Upper-intermediateSeptember 7, 202648 min

Tom Wright and Mike Bird tackle three big questions: Which Anglican tradition is most faithful? Does Genesis 1 leave room for the “gap theory”? And does 2 Peter really teach that the earth will be destroyed by fire? They explore church tradition and biblical faithfulness, creation and Genesis, and whether the Christian hope is the destruction or renewal of the world. You may also like: What happens at the End of the Age? https://www.premierunbelievable.com/ask-nt-wright-anything/what-happens-at-the-end-of-the-age/20167.article What’s the fine print on the Second Coming…https://www.premierunbelievable.com/ask-nt-wright-anything/whats-the-fine-print-on-the-second-coming-the-transfiguration-and-michael-heisers-unseen-realm/21128.article Should I use the w...

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Hello and welcome to the Ask NT Wright Anything podcast, the program where we answer your questions about Jesus, the Bible and the life of faith. I'm Mike Byrd from Ridley College in Melbourne, Australia and I'm joined by... Tom Wright from Whitcliffe Hall in Oxford but also from the West Coast of Scotland. Tom, what's new in your world? Anything new and fascinating happening?

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All sorts of things going on. I've been trying to finish my little book on Christian nationalism, which foolishly I agreed to do. I say foolishly because it's actually been far more of a struggle than I expected it would be because I did an initial lecture which I thought I'd said what I wanted to say. And then when the publisher said turn this into a little book, I thought,

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well, that's all right. I can do that. But actually, there's been so many turns and twists on the way. So I'm still trying to wrap that one up. That's been preoccupying me. But we're up in Scotland. We've had family staying, which has been a great delight. We've been on the beach. They've been playing golf. My knees won't let me join them. But I'm

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