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Heaven is a Place.

You might of heard it said somewhere that heaven, the place you go after you die is just a state of mind or an other dimension where disembodied spirits live awaiting the rapture or the second coming of Christ, where they will receive resurrected bodies at the general resurrection. Nothing is further from the truth. Yes I believe that when a saved person dies they enter the presence of Christ, but the bible says nothing about ephemeral spirits floating around in space, as some bible teachers teach us. What heaven is or what it looks like has not been revealed to mortals, since we cannot see through the time space continuum until we die, and if you have never been saved then you will never experience heaven, but God will is that before you pass you would have had an opportunity to enter into Salvation by being born again.

I believe that Heaven is a real place because the bible teaches that it is. There are many chapters that refer to the abode of the dead, and in that abode lies heaven. This is not a Jewish concept though they believe in an afterlife, but a christian doctrine. I say doctrine because if we did not have a resting place to go to after we die, as believers our souls would be quite restless in a disembodied pseudo heaven, where the soul looses it's identity. What is more important is that we are protected through the God himself who created us, and has a wonderful place prepared for Christians after we die, or fall asleep in Christ.

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