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Loading...Some of you have asked when / where my next lecture tour would be, and now I’ve decided. Sometimes I do kinda obvious ones (Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, etc.) and sometimes less obvious (or, well, unexpected) ones because … I’ve never done them before. And so this time. It’s supposed to be flippin’ amazing. A cruise from Bergen Norway up the gorgeous coast to Svalbard and check out the polar bears (and lots of other things).
It’ll be this June. I’ll be lecturing on a topic of key interest for anyone connected with the blog. (It will not be related to Polar Bears; others will be doing that. ‘Cause we’ll be seeing them).
Wanna come? I’ll be giving out more information anon, but for now, here is the description that I’ve written for the forthcoming brochure. Give it some thought for now, with more details coming soon.
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Don’t forget to check out the Svalbard Global Seed Vault. Only from the outside, mind, but still worth it.
How I wish I could go on that trip! However, this trip (and all those other fantastic ones you’ve advertised here in the past) are unfortunately out of my reach. I wish you would come to Northern California at some point! A nice dinner somewhere in San Francisco or San Jose, and I would join you in a heartbeat.
Next time I’m there!
We love Bergen. It’s a wonderful city. May try to make this one.
Time to sell my wife on the idea of seeing polar bears while they still exist, pretending this has nothing to do with that boring hobby I have at all.
Go for it!
This sounds great. But it also sounds expensive. Even for a Norwegian like me not having to buy airplane tickets crossing the Atlantic. It looks like you have chosen a high class ship. But it will be a spectacular trip, at least if the weather will be ok. The coast and the fjords are great. Svalbard is a place unlike any other place on this planet. Looking forward to get more details.
Is there a limit on number of guests in your party?
There must be some limit! But so far I don’t know what it is. I’ve asked. (it depends on a number of factors connected with cruise company itself)
Yes, I’d like to go. But, while I’ve got you here:
If it is correct to say that resurrection is the defeat of death, how is death defeated? Is it that at the moment of the 1st person to be resurrected – Jesus, Satan is defeated, he no longer has any power over us? Or he was given a mortal blow, but still has some power until Christ’s 2nd coming? Or, God took away from Sin and Death what rightfully belonged to them, a dead person, but they still have their power, and God will continue to take away believers from Sin and Death until the end when everything will be sorted out and God will reign supreme?
It depends which early Christian you ask. For Paul, death is a cosmic power whose power was taken away by Jesus’ death, as evidenced by him not being kept under death’s domain. Followers of Jesus can participate in this liberation from death by being united with him in baptism (Romans 6). Later Christians became imaginative and came up with a personified Death whom Jesus literally overcome in a fight (eg. the Gospel of Nicodemus).
Have you been to Oslo before Bart?
Oh yes. Love it!