Ways Of Getting To Heaven...

A lady on Facebook asked me recently if I wanted her to tell me the way to heaven. Well, I told her. The Anglo-Saxon word "heaven" is derived from the Old English heofon "the visible sky, firmament". All ultimately from the Indo-European root "*kem-" meaning to cover. IOW the glass shield that held back the waters (cf. Genesis 1: 6). Here, Wikipedia tells you all about this firmament or dome nonsense:

Firmament - Wikipedia

Here's the link to the picture:

Firmament - Wikipedia

Please, I told her, upload it to your phone. And share it with your literalist friends. So they'll know what scientists and skeptics mean when they use words like "firmament" and "vault, dome". And 6,000 year old earth theory.

You're asking how do you get to the sky, I told her? Well, I don't know I said. It doesn't really exist. It is an illusion. Like a rainbow, the closer you get, the more it recedes.

I still tend to believe in God, or at least a higher order to things. He's not in a place that recedes the closer you get. Though you'll never see, i.e. prove, him. But if he exists, he's all around us. And wants us to just love one another, I would think.

 

I agree. But I think the lady was using the second dictionary definition of the term: 2a. the dwelling place of the Deity and the blessed dead; b. a spiritual state of everlasting communion with God.

 

They were all the same thing. According to the Bible. The sky was heaven, the firmament, and the home of God. All three. She was claiming Biblical literalism. I was just trying to help her along.