JimParker said:
I saw a video by a Ph.D. Astrophysicist believer. (I can't remember his name.)
He stated that God must exist in at least 11 dimensions and then proceeded to explain why. It made sense but I can't repeat any of it without confusing parts.
We only experience 4 dimensions (length, width, height, and time) and one of them (time) isn't fixed. What "time it is" depends on where you're standing and how fast you're going. :huh:
BUT, I digress.
Jesus is in you. (In reality, not in some metaphorical, poetic sense - really) But, you cannot physically experience His presence because He's not confined to our 4 dimensions. He is everywhere present and filling all things just like the Holy Spirit.
Heaven is not a place that you can locate on the map of the universe and you can't look up Jesus address.
God (Father, Son and Holy Spirit) is not located in what we would call a "place." The universe is too small for God to be confined to its boundries.
Your question may appear to be simple but it is a very difficult one to answer! :)
jim
Good post. 3rd heaven..
3rd - Deut 10:14 NIV To the LORD your God belong the heavens, even the highest heavens, the earth and everything in it.
3rd - 1 Kings 8:27 NIV "But will God really dwell on earth? The heavens, even the highest heaven, cannot contain you. How much less this temple I have built!
3rd - Psalm 78:23 NIV Yet he gave a command to the skies above and opened the doors of the heavens;
3rd - Psalm 115:16 NIV The highest heavens belong to the LORD, but the earth he has given to mankind.
3rd - Psalm 148:4 NIV Praise him, you highest heavens and you waters above the skies.
3rd - Isa 14:13-14 NIV You said in your heart, “I will ascend to the heavens; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of Mount Zaphon. 14I will ascend above the tops of the clouds; I will make myself like the Most High.”
3rd - Ez 1:1 NIV In my thirtieth year, in the fourth month on the fifth day, while I was among the exiles by the Kebar River, the heavens were opened and I saw visions of God.
3rd - Mark 1:10 NIV Just as Jesus was coming up out of the water, he saw heaven being torn open and the Spirit descending on him like a dove.
3rd - Luke 23:43 NIV Jesus answered him, "Truly I tell you, today you will be with me in paradise."
3rd - Acts 7:56 NIV "Look," he said, "I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing at the right hand of God."
3rd - 2 Cor 12:2 NIV I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago was caught up to the third heaven. Whether it was in the body or out of the body I do not know--God knows.
3rd - 2 Cor 12:4 NIV was caught up to paradise and heard inexpressible things, things that no one is permitted to tell.
3rd - Gal 4:26 NIV But the Jerusalem that is above is free, and she is our mother.
3rd - Heb 4:14 NIV Therefore, since we have a great high priest who has ascended into heaven, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess.
3rd - Heb 7:26 NIV Such a high priest truly meets our need--one who is holy, blameless, pure, set apart from sinners, exalted above the heavens.
3rd - Heb 8:1 NIV Now the main point of what we are saying is this: We do have such a high priest, who sat down at the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in heaven,
3rd - Heb 12:22 NIV But you have come to Mount Zion, to the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem. You have come to thousands upon thousands of angels in joyful assembly,
3rd - Rev 2:7 NIV Whoever has ears, let them hear what the Spirit says to the churches. To the one who is victorious, I will give the right to eat from the tree of life, which is in the paradise of God.
3rd - Rev 3:12 NIV The one who is victorious I will make a pillar in the temple of my God. Never again will they leave it. I will write on them the name of my God and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which is coming down out of heaven from my God; and I will also write on them my new name.
