RE: The Tower of Babel
November 2, 2015 at 9:44 pm
(This post was last modified: November 2, 2015 at 9:48 pm by Huggy Bear.)
(November 2, 2015 at 9:29 pm)Chad32 Wrote: No, they weren't making an interdemintional gate. Heaven was originally thought to be up in the sky. That's why the sky was also called the heavens, and why heaven is often depicted with clouds. This whole "it's in another dimension" came about because we started flying through the air, and made skyscrapers rise above the clouds.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heaven
Quote:Traditionally, Christianity has taught that Heaven is the location of the throne of God as well as the holy angels, although this is in varying degrees considered metaphorical. In traditional Christianity, it is considered a state or condition of existence (rather than a particular place somewhere in the cosmos) of the supreme fulfillment of theosis in the beatific vision of the Godhead. In most forms of Christianity, heaven is also understood as the abode for the righteous dead in the afterlife, usually a temporary stage before the resurrection of the dead and the saints' return to the New Earth.
Quote:2 Corinthians 12:2
I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows.
Pray tell what exactly this 3rd heaven is then....
(November 2, 2015 at 9:34 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Do you really mean what it sounds like you mean? This god you've invented really is both all powerful and afraid of us? So afraid it needs to divide us by war? Rather sick and paranoid if you ask me. Especially sick if it's necessary to punish us for the resulting strife.
I was just using ww2 as an illustration.....
