Beyond the stars: How modern science confirms the Bible’s vision of Heaven

When our son was 4 years outdated, he requested my spouse and me, “Are you able to drive to heaven?” From the mouths of infants, proper?

It is a query solely a baby would ask, but it surely raises a really grownup query: The place precisely is heaven described within the Bible?

As a scientist, I perceive the significance of definitions. In line with the Bible, the bottom stage of heaven is the earth’s environment. The mid-level heaven is area. We’re speaking about heaven on the highest stage: that’s the place God lives.

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Concerning the placement of heaven, the Bible accommodates many verses that describe us wanting “up” to God in heaven, and God as wanting “down” to us on earth.

Think about boarding a nuclear-powered rocket and touring straight “up” into area. Will you ever attain some extent to this point into area that you simply lastly attain heaven?

Take into consideration this earlier than you snort off the thought.

In 1929, American lawyer turned novice astronomer Edwin Hubble found that galaxies rush away from one another like shrapnel from a bomb. Hubble additionally found that there’s a clear sample in the best way galaxies are dashing away from one another, specifically: the additional “up” in area a galaxy is – the additional away it’s from Earth – the sooner it’s shifting away from Earth and every little thing else. It is referred to as Hubble’s legislation.

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However here is the place issues get actually attention-grabbing.

Theoretically, a galaxy 273 billion trillion (273,000,000,000,000,000,000,000) miles away from Earth could be shifting at a pace of 300,000 kilometers per second, which is the pace of sunshine. That distance, all the best way ‘up’ in area, is named the Cosmic Horizon.

Which means you and I can by no means attain the Cosmic Horizon – not even aboard essentially the most souped-up, nuclear-powered rocket you’ll be able to think about – as a result of, as Einstein defined in his particular idea of relativity, solely mild and sure different non-material phenomena can journey on the pace of sunshine.

So the place precisely is heaven situated? It’s totally potential that the sky is on the opposite facet of the Cosmic Horizon. This is the reason.

One: In line with trendy cosmology, there exists a whole universe past the Cosmic Horizon. However it’s completely hidden from us as a result of we will by no means attain, not to mention cross, the Cosmic Horizon.

Two, our greatest astronomical observations – and Einstein’s theories of particular and common relativity – point out that point stops on the cosmic horizon. At that particular distance, manner ‘up’ in deep, deep area, there isn’t any previous, current or future. There’s solely timelessness.

Three: Not like time, nevertheless, area exists on and past the Cosmic Horizon. Because of this the hidden universe past the Cosmic Horizon is liveable, albeit solely by mild and light-like entities.

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4: In line with trendy cosmology, the Cosmic Horizon is lined with the very oldest celestial our bodies within the observable universe. That implies that every little thing that exists outdoors the Cosmic Horizon predates these oldest objects… predates the so-called Massive Bang… predates the start of the observable universe.

All of those trendy scientific realities, and others, are why it’s completely affordable to invest that:

1. Heaven is certainly “up there” – far above our heads and much past the seen, starlit universe – simply because the Bible signifies.

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2. Heaven is inaccessible to us mortals throughout our lifetime, simply because the Bible signifies.

3. Heaven is inhabited by non-material, timeless beings, simply because the Bible signifies.

4. Heaven is the house of the One who’s older than the universe – the One who created the universe – simply because the Bible signifies.