(October 2, 2013 at 9:32 am)Doubting Thomas Wrote:(October 2, 2013 at 8:32 am)Drich Wrote: Heaven is an extra demensional realm. It is not of, in or above this World. It is not on another planet. It is a level of existance that runs paralell to this one.
Moving goal posts. Christians used to believe that Heaven was just above the firmament.
Now that we know that there is no firmament or heaven up there in the open sky or in space, Christians moved the goalposts to claim it's some interdimensionary realm. When science disproves your beliefs, invoke magic.
How do you know there never was a 'firmament?' God created the Garden of Eden and set it aside from the rest of the world and how it worked/developed. I have often used a covered cake dish as an example because of how some translations refer to the 'dome of the sky.' but your illustration with one or two very minor adjustments works even better.


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