[Ms NTL]

Originally Posted by Chris

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)

"ouranos" is also sky in modern Greek