What happens when we die? NT Wright on the Afterlife and NDEs

Ask NT Wright Anything

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🗓️ 23 March 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Are near-death experiences real? Do they give us a glimpse of the afterlife, or should we approach them with caution? What does it mean to live faithfully as a Christian? And who really has the authority to forgive sin— the individual believer, the priest or the church? In this episode of Ask NT Wright Anything, NT Wright and Mike Bird explore these listener questions, tackling the theology of near-death experiences and whether these experiences point to an afterlife, discussing the calling of all of us in our everyday Christian lives and fields of work, and the power and limits of forgiveness in the church. Ask NT Wright Anything is sponsored by Logos – start going deeper in the Bible with a free trial at logos.com/NT Got Questions for Tom? Go to: askntwright.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:52.6	Hello and welcome to the Ask Entie Write Anything podcast. I'm the co-host
0:57.0	Mike Bird from Really College in Melbourne, Australia. And I'm Tom Wright from Oxford in England.
1:01.8	And this is the program where we answer your questions about Jesus, Bible and the life of faith.
1:09.6	And Tom, once more, our listeners have rewarded us with a great
1:15.0	series of questions and we have got some doozies. Let me hit you up with the first one, Tom.
1:20.8	This is a good one. This is from Kathleen Haynes in Eagleville, the United States, and this is what
1:27.4	she asks. What is your opinion of
1:30.3	near-death experiences? The book by Pastor John Burke is quite interesting and seemed
1:36.9	biblically based, especially the God of heaven. After losing my husband of 53 and a half years, I felt that it was comforting.
1:46.0	I was really impressed in how scripturally sound his book was. And she adds, I'm a deacon in the
1:52.5	Anglican Church of America. Tom, I mean, what do you know about near-death experiences or do you
1:58.8	have any views on them? I don't know very much about near-death experiences.
2:03.6	I mean, I was touched by Kathleen saying that she'd just lost her husband of 53 and a half years.
2:10.6	My wife and I have been married for 53 and a half years, so I'm thinking, oh, yeah, I can see what that will be like.
2:16.6	And so blessings on you, Kathleen,
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