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All this sounds like some left-over paganism that no one bothered to correct. Where is heaven and where is hell, and where is God the Father and how can Christ sit to the tight of Him? These are some very visual descriptions of physical entities and yet the Church does not teach hell or heaven to be a "place."

It is not unusual that God's Word would use anthropomorphic words to help man understand something about God. God's Word condescends to mankind, stoops to him - even BEFORE the incarnation. It certainly doesn't seem to make much difference whether heaven is a place or a state of existence while we are on this side of the void...

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12,190 posted on 04/02/2007 5:24:47 PM PDT by jo kus (Humility is present when one debases oneself without being obliged to do so- St.Chrysostom; Phil 2:8)

It certainly doesn't seem to make much difference whether heaven is a place or a state of existence while we are on this side of the void...

But it does make a difference. It affects us how we believe and what we believe, and how we tailor our lives in that belief.