TIME: Rethinking Heaven

[Alex]

Heaven Can't Wait: Why rethinking the hereafter could make the world a better place
April 16, 2012  |  TIME

Stephen Hawking, "I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers, that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."

NT Wright (former UK Anglican bishop and leading New Testament scholar), "But in the Bible, 'heaven' isn't 'the place where people go when they die.' In the Bible heaven is God's space, while earth (or if you like, 'the cosmos' or 'creation') is our space. And the Bible makes it clear that the two overlap and interlock."