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Originally Posted by TheDaddy
I heard someone who had a not near death but actually dead experience who was brought back after quite sometime, he said it fealt like he had no physical form, he seem to know everything, wanted for nothing and was just very relaxed and at peace, that sounded like heaven to me
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Yes, it certainly would. I’m not saying the place where souls rest upon death isn’t really heaven so much as heaven is a more multi-layered place than we perhaps think.
The Greek word for Heaven In the first line of the Lord’s Prayer, ‘Our Father in Heaven’ is
ouranous* whereas on the cross Jesus promises the thief “you will be with me in paradise’ - Greek
paradeisos.
Both are in the heavens where God dwells but they are different spaces used for different things.
*(Incidentally, the same Greek word as a proper noun is the name of the mythical Greek celestial being we know as Uranus, the personification of heaven)