Heaven is real. “Heaven, in religion, place where God, gods, or other spiritual beings dwell, and the place or condition of perfect supernatural happiness for the redeemed in the afterlife” (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia pg.1). People’s concept of Heaven is normally with angles, halos, and harps up in the clouds. (Aitken pg.1) Heaven is learned from scripture, tradition, interpretation, and experience. (Aitken pg.1) Whether Heaven is real is an often thought debatable question to ask and answer. Many people wonder about it because of who will get there and how they will get there. The answers to these apparent simple questions can also be complex and confusing. (Aitken pg.1) The answers to these questions are confusing because all …show more content…
(Aitken pg.2) Along with different words that mean heaven there are different interruptions of it. In many Roman and Greek religions Elysium is a place of reward for the virtuous dead and Tartarus a place of damnation where the wicked were punished. “Elysium/Heaven can only be reached by hero, demigods, and favorites of the gods.” (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia pg.1) “Jewish mystics regarded the heavens as contained in the seven spheres of the firmament, and they found in the Persian doctrine of resurrection a hope of release from Sheol (abode of the dead) to a new life on earth or in the heavens.” (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia pg.1) In the polytheistic religion, Aristotle is the elevated place in the universe. “The general belief of Christians is that, since the resurrection of Christ, the souls of the just who are free from sin and admitted immediately after death into heaven, where their chief joy consists in an unclouded vision of God known as the beatific vision.” (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia pg.1) Christianity is the second most followed religion in the world behind Islam. “Islam, in the Koran, adopts the concept of the seven heavens of the firmament, differing in degrees of glory from the seventh, the adobe of the most high, downward to the first, or most earthly paradise.” (Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia