Theodore G. Van Raalte

Recorded during Conference 2014: “Correctly Handling the Word of Truth: Reformed Hermeneutics Today.” In Reformation times both sides were accusing the other of making Scripture a wax nose. Today one may well wonder whether the doctrinal construct of God’s “accommodation” in divine revelation has become a wax nose.

Recorded during the 2015 CRTS Conference.
Dr. Van Raalte sets his talk within the framework that the New Creation is the thing we really are aiming for, whereas going to live with God in heaven is an intermediate step towards that goal. Within that framework, he argues against the view that persons are only physical and against the theory of soul sleep. Conversely, he supports the view that believers, in their souls, are immediately raptured into heaven’s glory upon death and enjoy an ongoing existence there until Christ’s return.