Heard of 3 Heavens?

Question

There are 3 heavens as taught in the Bible:

1-Heaven-->where the birds fly.

2-Heaven-->space and galaxies

3-Heaven-->God's home in the spirit world, which cannot be explained by old or modern science.

What is heaven to you?

Answer 1

Where the birds fly is the sky, more accurately, the troposphere.

Where galaxies are is just called space, the universe

The 'heaven' as being the dwelling of god (why would he need a dwelling if he is supposed to be everywhere already?) is beyond science, and is thus not recognized by science as an existing location or state.

If you want to discuss science, plese do not take your cues from the bible.

Answer 2

Part 1: It doesn't have to be beer. Diet Coke does it for me.

Part 2: The notion of Heaven is mythic, and the human race has been forced to put it behind us. We still use the word and its associated ideas widely. Just let some famous person die, and watch the op-ed cartoons for a couple of days for all the jokes and platitudes based on silly ideas about the famous person showing up at the gates of heaven.

But most grownups realize it's only an old myth, and there is no heaven.

In ancient lines of thought there were some who believed that the universe was in three layers, with the "Underworld," or Hades, under the ground, the layer where we are, called "the land of the living" in the middle, and "the heavens" in the shape of a dome overhead.

Some philosophers devised whole systems of "levels in the heavens," assigning different types of angels and deities to each level. In the most advanced versions of this, there were as many as seven layers of heavens above the dome. You may have heard the expression "to be in seventh heaven."

When all this was being written about, there were more mature societies, including Egypt and Persia, in which astronomers had already figured out that the earth is a sphere suspended in open space and the earth orbits the sun.

But the book we call the Bible was developed in a more primitive society, and the authors did not understand very much about how the universe is laid out. So we inherited all the myths about the three-story universe, the orders of angels, and the levels of the heavens.

Makes a nice bedtime story, but be sure to tell the kids you know it's mythological, or they will laugh at you later and call you ignorant.

There's much more. Try an internet search on "three-story universe."

Answer 3

A cold beer on a hot day. A warm woman on a cold night.

Answer 4

My girl in my arms.