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So when people "go to heaven" does that mean they become as thin air?
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When we are "absent from the body," we are "at home with the Lord" (2 Corinthians 5:8).
Our life is in His breath, and our flesh is animated by His Spirit.
We do not become "thin air," but do return to our eternal home (Psalm 90:1) from which we originated.
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well no ... what happens is what happened with Jesus .... not some "spirit" that has no form or substance ..... we'll be given incorruptible bodies .... you will still be you less sin and corruption. This happens at the 1st resurrection (when Jesus returns) and not before.
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In Heaven, you have no body. We don't really have any concept of what that means in this life. At the resurrection, you'll get an incorruptible body, the way Jesus did. It'll be like yours but better, eternal, free from the weight of sin.
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Thin air is still physical. St. Paul simply speaks of being present with the Lord and absent from the body. But as others have already noted, at the resurrection our bodies are transformed, made new, glorified.
We simply don't have the language to describe or any comprehension of what existence apart from the body is like. Which is why it's perhaps best to simply stick with what Paul says: present with the Lord.
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We simply don't have the language to describe or any comprehension of what existence apart from the body is like. Which is why it's perhaps best to simply stick with what Paul says: present with the Lord.
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What do you mean by "go to heaven"?
Are you talking about the rapture in Matt 24 and 1 Thess 4:13-18??
People have physical bodies in the rapture as we see in 1 Cor 15.
But if you are talking about Eccl 12:6 Remember your Creator before the silver cord is broken and the golden bowl is crushed, the pitcher by the spring is shattered and the wheel at the cistern is crushed; 7 then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.
Then "no" there are no "puffs of air" shooting out of our atmosphere and going to heaven when someone dies.
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People say it as a figure of speech.
Based on word usage patterns in sentences, it means when you die, you go to God.
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