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Sep 1, 2005 · Heaven is not a location in the physical universe. One could never travel far enough in any direction in space to arrive in heaven. But it does seem that heaven has something corresponding to space. It may not be anything remotely like space as we experience it, but heaven does seem to have the ability to receive bodies into it.
Feb 27, 2015 · Now I know in part; then I shall understand fully, even as I have been fully understood.” Matt. 5:8 – “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.” I John 3:2 – “Beloved, we are God’s children now; it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he ...
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By His passion, death, and resurrection, Christ atoned for sin and opened the gates of heaven for us. Therefore, St. Paul wrote, “We know that when the earthly tent in which we dwell is destroyed, we have a dwelling provided for us by God, a dwelling in the heavens, not made by hands but to last forever” (II Corinthians 5:1).
God, in a sense, is heaven. In 1 Maccabees 3:18, for example, the author uses “Heaven” as a name for God (to avoid using the name it was forbidden to pronounce). Heaven exists wherever God is. Jesus said, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Mt 4:17), meaning that, since God took on flesh, heaven itself is here, among us.
By this edict which will prevail forever, with apostolic authority we declare: that according to the common arrangement of God, souls of all the saints . . . have been, are, and will be in heaven, in the kingdom of heaven and in celestial paradise with Christ, united in the company of the holy angels, and after the passion and death of our Lord Jesus Christ have seen and see the divine essence ...
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Aug 13, 2024 · Christians agree that God invites us all to end our lives in a state of being called ‘heaven’; that is, in a personal relationship with God that is full of joy and oneness for all eternity. The idea of a perfect state of being is very difficult to grasp since we are not perfect, and are not even certain in what perfection consists, try as we might to know.
