Why hasn't anyone found it yet? It should be visible, no? With like a telescope? Oh wait, it has to be invisible then, right?
Yeah, I used to have these friends when I was a kid, they were invisible, but then I grew up and they disappeared. Why? I don't know. You got me on that one.
How did jesus levitate to heaven? Wouldn't he have to go through space? They didn't have spacesuits back then did they? Cause I know that after rising from the dead taking a trip in space is gonna hurt, that's why jesus had to have a spacesuit right?
So then what's up? If the central reason for being a christian is believing jesus rose from the dead up to heaven, then why do people still believe in this crap? It obviously didn't happen. Unless of course you're in denial.
Then everything makes sense. Except the truth.
2006-12-06 10:53:43 · 22 answers · asked by Jerse 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Heaven is a state of consciousness ... and many *have* found it. The kingdom of heaven is WITHIN. It is within your consciousness if you seek to elevate it.
2006-12-06 11:00:09 · answer #1 · answered by MyPreshus 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
>I know that after rising from the dead taking a trip in space
>is gonna hurt
How do you KNOW that?
Have you conducted scientific experiments to prove or disprove that? How many times did you replicate that experiment?
My understanding is that His Resurrection Body was no longer subject to pain and death; He was able to enter rooms that were locked; and probably He COULD travel through outer space. However, consider Stephen, the first Christian Martyr. As he was being stoned, he looked up and saw the heavens open and saw Jesus standing (standing to welcome the first Christian Martyr). It would seem Heaven was NOT millions of miles away; rather, probably it was in another dimension.
The "central reason" for being a Christian is because Jesus was "delivered for our offences and raised for our justification".
Why shouldn't we believe that He is exalted in Heaven and will return, as He promised, and His feet shall stand in that day on the Mount of Olives, and an earthquake will split the Mount in two.
For those who believe, the words of the angels "this same Jesus shall so come in like manner as you saw Him go into heaven" make total sense; for those who refuse to believe, then they will twist, scoff, and ridicule.
2006-12-06 19:09:06 · answer #2 · answered by kent chatham 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is just up the galaxy from Kolob. And yes, when Jesus rose from the dead, he ascended to heaven. Last time I checked there wasn't a telescope invented that could see the ENTIRE universe. Take that to the bank!
2006-12-06 19:00:43 · answer #3 · answered by Presagio 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sooner or later this combustible mixture of heaven and hell is going to blow up in your mind.when we must choose it's future.how could a civilization have been so blind-which do not see the Spirit! Heaven is in the arms of Lord! He can lift you through his arms and keeps you there.Although Heaven is invisible for all of us.Only God Knows and the soul of a person.
2006-12-06 19:06:03 · answer #4 · answered by Ciiemen p 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Laughing OUT LOUD!!!
Are you really so infantile that you think you can perceive all reality?
You are limited to five senses, dude! You can't even detect radio waves without a radio. There are all kinds of things you have no way of perceiving. You don't have the receptors!
YOU HAVE FIVE SENSES ! ! That's all.
You really think you're "IT", don't you. WHAT ARROGANCE!!!
Smart guys (not you, just in case you missed it) do calculations in other dimensions for reasons I don't understand, but they have pretty much "proven" that other dimensions exist that we simply have no way of perceiving.
You need an exercise in humility, guy. Things can and do exist apart from you knowing about it.
2006-12-06 18:56:23 · answer #5 · answered by s2scrm 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
the thing is when we weren't alive, we had no consciousness, and when we die, we enter that state again. simple as that. we just can't even fathom not having control of ourselves, or not having thoughts once our brain stops. it's not within our human ability to be able to conceive such an idea because it is a human, an animal instinct, to try as hard as you can to survive, even if it means believing you can survive into another life once you die in this one.
2006-12-09 03:37:13 · answer #6 · answered by ♥Rabeka♦ 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can deny it. It is your choice and you have free will.
However, that does not change any facts...and you are still going to be held responsible. You know the truth and yet, you deny it.
God has always offered mercy before judging...He prefers mercy over judging...but some just refuse...
Romans 1:18-31 (New International Version)
God's Wrath Against Mankind
18 The wrath of God is being revealed from heaven against all the godlessness and wickedness of men who suppress the truth by their wickedness, 19 since what may be known about God is plain to them, because God has made it plain to them. 20 For since the creation of the world God's invisible qualities—his eternal power and divine nature—have been clearly seen, being understood from what has been made, so that men are without excuse.
21 For although they knew God, they neither glorified him as God nor gave thanks to him, but their thinking became futile and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.
24 Therefore God gave them over in the sinful desires of their hearts to sexual impurity for the degrading of their bodies with one another. 25 They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshiped and served created things rather than the Creator—who is forever praised. Amen.
26 Because of this, God gave them over to shameful lusts. Even their women exchanged natural relations for unnatural ones. 27 In the same way the men also abandoned natural relations with women and were inflamed with lust for one another. Men committed indecent acts with other men, and received in themselves the due penalty for their perversion.
28 Furthermore, since they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, he gave them over to a depraved mind, to do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31they are senseless, faithless, heartless, ruthless.
2006-12-06 19:02:25 · answer #7 · answered by Salvation is a gift, Eph 2:8-9 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heaven is a fictional place thought up by weak-minded men and women who can't deal with the fact that their existence is a temporary one.
The problem with trying to prove this is that these same weak-minded people will come up with reasons for why any argument you make, however valid it may be, is not true by coming up with convenient explanations for why things are the way they are.
2006-12-06 18:56:00 · answer #8 · answered by Axel 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Science has explored a very tiny bit of our universe; your question is a very foolish one.
The kingdom of heaven is within you.
2006-12-06 18:58:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
We don't know.
There's no map of heaven.
We use faith.
Why did you try to say the Holocaust was an exaggeration?
2006-12-06 19:03:55 · answer #10 · answered by . 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋