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Originally Posted by awareness
The ascension was written back when they knew nothing about the real cosmos, back when they pictured the earth like a three-layered cake. In that conception, heaven wasn't very far up ; close enough for Jesus to levitate to heaven.
Of course reality didn't and doesn't match that conception. Where Jesus went we don't know.
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That's how the Ascension appears from a modern materialistic perspective. Of course it appears absurd from that point of view. The Bible was written from a spiritual perspective. it makes more sense when it's read that way.
From a modern materialist perspective humans are heaps of atoms, animated by chance. Life is a spasm in a meaningless universe. The modern technoscience perspective has brought us nihilism of a God-is- dead world where everything is permissible. Science is great at determining how things work and what things are made of. But science doesn't seem to be enough. It doesn't offer a complete picture.
The Bible doesn't make sense looked at it through a modern materialistic lens. That way of looking misses the symbolism. From a symbolic perspective a more fitting question about the Ascension than whether it's scientifically possible would be: What does it mean? Does it embody some higher spiritual truth?