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To: Forest Keeper; Agrarian
We all agree that we want to go to a real place called heaven

Heavn is a place?

7,402 posted on 05/31/2006 3:25:15 AM PDT by kosta50 (Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
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To: kosta50; Agrarian
Heaven is a place?

Sure, for one thing we have this:

John 14:2-4 : 2 In my Father's house are many rooms; if it were not so, I would have told you. I am going there to prepare a place for you. 3 And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come back and take you to be with me that you also may be where I am. 4 You know the way to the place where I am going."

We also have the heavenly Jerusalem described here:

Heb. 11:16 : Instead, they were longing for a better country—a heavenly one. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God, for he has prepared a city for them.

We even get a description of this city including dimensions:

Rev. 21:15-17 : 15 The angel who talked with me had a measuring rod of gold to measure the city, its gates and its walls. 16 The city was laid out like a square, as long as it was wide. He measured the city with the rod and found it to be 12,000 stadia in length, and as wide and high as it is long. 17 He measured its wall and it was 144 cubits thick, by man's measurement, which the angel was using.

Now, I don't think that heaven is hovering somewhere over Venus under a cloaking device or something. :) I think it is outside of the created universe, but that nonetheless, it is a real place. Every reference I can think of in the Bible talks about it in terms of it being a place, such as "Kingdom". So I don't know why it shouldn't be a literal place. If we're going to have resurrected bodies, then we have to live somewhere.

7,581 posted on 06/01/2006 5:41:27 PM PDT by Forest Keeper
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