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Wednesday 25 May 2011

BP SENTAMU PUTS HAWKING RIGHT

Archbishop John Sentamu has put Stephen Hawking right about heaven.

“Heaven is not just some kind of place for retired Christians,” he told BBC’s Toby Foster. “Heaven is where God’s will is being done. In fact, the Lord’s Prayer talks about ‘your will be done on earth as it is in Heaven’. So God is very much on earth as He is in Heaven.”

During the interview, the Anglican leader was asked what he felt about famed physicist Hawking’s recent declaration that “there is no Heaven or afterlife” and that it is all “a fairy story for people afraid of the dark”.

Sentamu first made clear, “I’m not afraid of dying. Bring it on any day.”

The Church of England cleric continued, “[Hawking] shouldn’t paint a picture of some kind of sky stuff up there because the faith of God is not that kind of faith. The coming of Jesus in human flesh on earth was actually trying to say, ‘when I look at you ... you should be telling me more about what God is and about what it is to be human'.”

Sentamu told the BBC that he would tell “that wonderful professor” not to picture another image which most people do not have at all.

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