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Where is heaven?

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Where is heaven?
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#1
Where is heaven?
January 2, 2014 at 6:14 pm
Where the heck is heaven supposed to be? Is it another dimension? Is it like Narnia in a wardrobe?
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 2, 2014 at 6:17 pm
Yahweh's throne is said to rest on the firmament of the world. It's supposed to be right above the clouds. I don't think the bible ever mentions some spiritual place in another dimension, but since we've learned so much and obviously don't see heaven anywhere near the Earth, christians are forced to believe it isn't a physical place.
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10 Christ-like figures that predate Jesus. Link shortened to Chris ate Jesus for some reason...
http://listverse.com/2009/04/13/10-chris...ate-jesus/

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88GTUXvp-50

A list of biblical contradictions from the infallible word of Yahweh.
http://infidels.org/library/modern/jim_m...tions.html

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RE: Where is heaven?
January 2, 2014 at 6:19 pm
My guess is its on Orion's belt. Right next to the galaxy.
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm
It's on the theists imagination. Kind of like the enterprise is on the imagination of trekkies.
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 2, 2014 at 6:56 pm
Dante had it quite complicated, but the fact he lived in the days before Copernicus does not help his point at all. If you're interested though I might go looking for some old essay I wrote in high school about that...


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RE: Where is heaven?
January 2, 2014 at 7:18 pm
(January 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm)LastPoet Wrote: It's on the theists imagination. Kind of like the enterprise is on the imagination of trekkies.

Confusedhock:
It doesn't exist?!?!?!



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RE: Where is heaven?
January 3, 2014 at 1:15 am
Well, it used to just be in the sky, but the moment we humans got up there it retracted back to some magic spirit place. I mean, god wouldn't want us to find it or anything, right?

As of right now, heaven nestles snugly in the gaps in our knowledge, where it will reside right up until we know everything concerning universal origins, upon which time it will move to faith, until the last remaining stubborn christians pass away, and it will cease to be entirely.
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 3, 2014 at 1:35 am
(January 2, 2014 at 6:42 pm)LastPoet Wrote: It's on the theists imagination. Kind of like the enterprise is on the imagination of trekkies.

Picard lives! When I die I will be transported to the sick bay of the enterprise and reborn via the incredibly skilled hands of Doctor Crusher. Confused Fall
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 3, 2014 at 1:41 am
Up. Angel
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RE: Where is heaven?
January 3, 2014 at 2:10 am
Asking that to a theist is like asking them "When is God?"
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