1. Southwold Lent Lectures 2019 Heaven, Hell, or Somewhere In Between
Southwold Lent Lectures Heaven, Hell, or Somewhere In Between? Where Do I Go When I Die?   H. G. M. Williamson

3. Beyond anyone’s experience

4. Beyond anyone’s experience
Beyond time and space

5. Beyond anyone’s experience
Beyond time and space
No longer taught during Advent

6. What is Hell?
The Traditional View

7. What is Hell?
The Traditional View
Universalism

8. What is Hell?
The Traditional View
Universalism
Conditional Immortality

9. So what about heaven?
Essential to link with last week:
Resurrection of Jesus anticipates end time

10. So what about heaven?
Essential to link with last week:
Resurrection of Jesus anticipates end time
His resurrection as ‘firstfruits’

11. So what about heaven?
Essential to link with last week:
Resurrection of Jesus anticipates end time
His resurrection as ‘firstfruits’
‘the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting’
—discontinuity
—continuity

12. 1 Corinthians 15
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (v. 50): not just resuscitation (discontinuity)

13. 1 Corinthians 15 • Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (v. 50): not just resuscitation (discontinuity) • End time change (vv. 51–52): trumpet; raised; changed

14. 1 Corinthians 15
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (v. 50): not just resuscitation (discontinuity)
End time change (vv. 51–52):
trumpet; raised; changed
Mortal ‘puts on’ immortality (v. 53)

15. 1 Corinthians 15
Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God (v. 50): not just resuscitation (discontinuity)
End time change (vv. 51–52):
trumpet; raised; changed
Mortal ‘puts on’ immortality (v. 53)
Death swallowed up in victory (v. 54)

16. What Happens In Between?
What is clear: Philippians 1:23
2 Corinthians 5:8
Luke 23:43

17. What Happens In Between?
What is clear: Philippians 1:23
2 Corinthians 5:8
Luke 23:43
Not soul sleep
Not purification or punishment

18. What Happens In Between?
What is clear: Philippians 1:23
2 Corinthians 5:8
Luke 23:43
Not soul sleep
Not purification or punishment
What is not clear: Problem of time
Problem of state/condition

19. The Judgment Seat of Christ
(2 Corinthians 5:10 as explained by 1 Corinthians 3:10–15)
Foundation: ‘builder will be saved’

20. The Judgment Seat of Christ
(2 Corinthians 5:10 as explained by 1 Corinthians 3:10–15)
Foundation: ‘builder will be saved’
Building as an image

21. The Judgment Seat of Christ
(2 Corinthians 5:10 as explained by 1 Corinthians 3:10–15)
Foundation: ‘builder will be saved’
Building as an image
Differing materials, tested by fire

22. The Judgment Seat of Christ
(2 Corinthians 5:10 as explained by 1 Corinthians 3:10–15)
Foundation: ‘builder will be saved’
Building as an image
Differing materials, tested by fire
Reward for what endures
Application to the final state

23. Impact Now!

24. For further reading Gerhard Lohfink, Is This All There Is
For further reading Gerhard Lohfink, Is This All There Is? On Resurrection and Eternal Life (Collegeville: Liturgical Press, 2018) Tom Wright, Surprised by Hope (London: SPCK, 2007) Anthony Thistleton, Life After Death: A New Approach to the Last Things (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2012)