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Originally posted by Locoman8
reply to post by _SilentAssassin_
Heaven is divided into 3 categories. More precise, there are 3 heavens. The 1st heaven is the earth's atmosphere (birds flying in the heavens).
The 2nd heaven is the cosmos or outer space (stars in heaven).
The 3rd heaven is God, the Father's dwelling place along with His angels and His Son Jesus. This is in a spiritual realm that no flesh and bone body can ever be part of.
In the beginning God created the HEAVENS (plural) and the Earth. Keep that in mind.
That's my answer to heaven for you. The biblical proof of 3 heavens is in the book of Hebrews. Just read through it and you'll see. I hope this helps.
Gen 1:14 And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Originally posted by _SilentAssassin_
reply to post by Locoman8
Sorry I say differently. To me God and the Universe are the same thing. ALL is only ONE.
You may even devide the Universe in dimensions, that I do not disagree. But God is not just on the higher dimensions. God is everywhere.
[edit on 19-5-2010 by _SilentAssassin_]
8See to it that no one carries you off as spoil or makes you yourselves captive by his so-called philosophy and intellectualism and vain deceit (idle fancies and plain nonsense), following human tradition (men's ideas of the material rather than the spiritual world), just crude notions following the rudimentary and elemental teachings of the universe and disregarding [the teachings of] Christ (the Messiah).
Originally posted by boondock-saint
Originally posted by damwel
So the dead rise when Christ returns and he takes 144,000 Christians into heaven and then what???
Oh the rest of us stay here and get eaten by the dead out of Christ? I think I have seen this movie a lot of times.
this would appear to be disinfo.
As far as the way I read the Bible there is no maximum
limit or number used to describe how many Christians
will be included in the Rapture. It is EVERYONE who
believes in Jesus, no matter how many there is.
The only excluded ones from the rapture are the
non-believers.