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Originally Posted by AREQUIPA
So if I were a believer, I'd suppose the answer is that there is a paradise where people wait for a new body and that's where Jesus was in between apparitions, and your suggestion that Jesus assured Mary that He's be around for a while stands up. .
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Arequipa...
I don't know if all the questions you have asked in your last post are real questions, or are just a means to introduce different sections or different ideas of your post?
But, I have picked out one small section above to address in my next answer:
"Paradise" in this context (as spoken by Jesus to the thief on the cross)
is where we go as believers when we die.
We are not in the body, therefore we don't really ascend or "go" any directions.
The three dimensions have little meaning to a spirit without a body.
Therefore while Jesus
entrusted his "spirit" to the Father at the moment of his death, but his body was
left on the cross.
Jesus as well as
all Christians enter what is called by Christ as "paradise" at the moment of death ,
but this should never be understood as '
ascending into heaven" as that can only happen when the spirit is wrapped in flesh.
Jesus did not ascend into heaven until the 40 or so days after he resurrected from the dead.
When he did ascen into Heaven in his glorified risen body, this was the very first time anyone had ever done this.
And his resurrection is to be used as a guide for our own, and also used as our only source of information about what the after life is like.
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