heaven

[rockclimber]

What is heaven?
Physical
Spiritual
What is spiritual?

[Sarah]

Interesting question.  Doesn't scripture mention 3 heavens?

I think of spiritual as the thought relm.  Love, Joy and Peace in the Holy Ghost as the kingdom of God.

[SeekerSA]

Hi RC

You may need to read these teachings of Jesus.

They all start with or have "The kingdom of heaven is like.."

Mat 13:31; Mat 13:33; Mat 13:44; Mat 13:45; Mat 13:47; Mat 13:52; Mat 20:1; Mat 22:2

Remember too, "Kingdom of heaven" and "Kingdom of God" are used interchangeably, They are not two separate kingdoms.

Blessings

[reFORMer]

(...mostly a fragment from another post:)

Some of you seem to think the aim of God's salvation is to die and go to heaven.  Recorded in several places Jesus says, "Heaven and earth shall pass away:  but my words shall not pass away." (Mk 13:31, Lk 21:33)  What will you do if you die and heaven is not there?  How Scripture uses the word ought to be looked at more closely.

     The word "heaven" is slightly more than half the time plural in Scripture.  The commentaries like to explain it with a Latin term to sound like they know what they're talking about.  They say the plural "heavens" is majestis pluralis, meaning plural only to communicate the exceeding glory of heaven.  In reality there are three (3) heavens, (2 Co 12:2) corresponding to the upper aspect of the dimensions of (3.) spirit (where peculiarly God's presence is), (2.) soul (psychic realm,) and (1.) body (the heaven of earth's atmosphere to the distant galaxies.)  Jesus has passed through all the heavens (Hb 4:14) and rests up over all in the right of the Great All-Togetherness upon High (Hb 1:3.)  While we are joined to Him there in ascension, we are undergoing a process with His Spirit sharing the same body in union with Him down into death and through resurrection to come into the demonstration of ascension.

---James