Christians, please help

[LotC]

A perplexing question popped into my head last night. When Jesus was resurrected and physically rose up towards the sky, where exactly did he go? Did he go into outer space, or did he just meander below the tropopause and float around in the clouds, where he remains to this day? If it's the former, did he go to another planet? If it's the latter, wouldn't an exhaustive search be in order? This one has me wondering. Any insights?

[Lancer]

Heaven...

[Koyaanisqatsi]

Beyond the rim.

[/just finished watching Babylon 5]

[Lancer]

On the sci channel I watched a show that speculated the existance of many universes on different planes like pages in a book one right next to another seperated by almost nothing. Who knows? It doesn't really matter to me yet.

[LotC]

Originally posted by Lancer
On the sci channel I watched a show that speculated the existance of many universes on different planes like pages in a book one right next to another seperated by almost nothing. Who knows? It doesn't really matter to me yet.

I highly doubt that matter or energy could pass between universes. There's no evidence to support such a hypothesis.

[Lancer]

People can't do it so it must not be possible. People can't see it so it must not exist.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

I don't think the Bible says he physically rose up towards the sky, does it? In fact, no one witnesses the resurrection; they just find the empty tomb, and later Christ pops back in to explain what happened, kind of like the end of an episode of "Murder, She Wrote." I assumed the whole rising toward the sky thing was a trope of Western art and was merely symbolic.

[LotC]

Originally posted by Lancer
People can't do it so it must not be possible. People can't see it so it must not exist.

It's not that people can't do it, it's that physical laws don't allow it. If they did, wouldn't we see things popping in and out of these alternate universes on a regular basis?

[Lancer]

Doesn't really matter yet.

[LotC]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I don't think the Bible says he physically rose up towards the sky, does it? In fact, no one witnesses the resurrection; they just find the empty tomb, and later Christ pops back in to explain what happened, kind of like the end of an episode of "Murder, She Wrote." I assumed the whole rising toward the sky thing was a trope of Western art and was merely symbolic.

So where did the body go then I wonder? He was physically resurrected and became immortal. He must still be physically out there somewhere, within the confines of our universe.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I don't think the Bible says he physically rose up towards the sky, does it? In fact, no one witnesses the resurrection; they just find the empty tomb, and later Christ pops back in to explain what happened, kind of like the end of an episode of "Murder, She Wrote." I assumed the whole rising toward the sky thing was a trope of Western art and was merely symbolic.

That was after he resurrected, and then left...

I think that Heaven is a physical location.

JM

[LotC]

Originally posted by Lancer
Doesn't really matter yet.

It matters to me. That's why I'm asking.

[-Jrabbit]

He went rimward. To this day, he rides through space on the back of Great A'Tuin.

[LotC]

Originally posted by Jon Miller


That was after he resurrected, and then left...

I think that Heaven is a physical location.

JM

What, like another planet?

[Aeson]

Anywhere/Everywhere/Nowhere. All (things) are possible if you accept Him, right? (Which is basically what you do if you accept the resurrection as something that really happened.) So it's not really an important question at that point.

If you don't accept that, then it's really quite simple too.