Entering the living Heaven (called by various religions "ascension", "assumption", or "translation") is a belief held in various religions. Because death is the normal end of a person's life on Earth and the beginning of the hereafter, entering Heaven without dying first is considered extraordinary and is usually a sign of special recognition of the god of individual piety.
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Christianity
Unlike other entries in this article, this verse does not, in the view of most Christians, relate to "entering the living Heaven". Jesus is considered by most Christians to have died before being resurrected and ascended to heaven. With regard to his mother, Mary, the Eastern Orthodox considers him to have died before being assumed (translated) to heaven. In the same way, Roman Catholics affirm that Mary, the mother of Jesus, suffered death before assumptions that have been "explicitly asserted in the Liturgy of the Church" and are clearly seen in verse 20 of this proclamation of teaching. Protestantism generally believed that Mary died as a natural death like any other human being and was not then assumed to heaven, although Anglican Anglo-Catholic tradition often confirms this assumption.
Most Christians believe that Jesus originally died, but was later raised from the dead by God, before being physically raised to heaven to sit in God's Right Hand with the promise of someday returning to earth. The minority view that Jesus did not die is known as the hypothesis of Swoon and Docetism.
Since the adoption of the Nicene Creed in 325, the Ascension of Jesus Christ to heaven, associated in the New Testament, has been formally taught by all orthodox Christian churches and celebrated on the Ascension Thursday. In the Roman Catholic Church, the Ascension of the Lord is the Day of Sacred Duty. In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Ascension is one of the twelve Great Feasts.
In the tradition of the Reformed church of Calvinism, belief in Christ's increment is included in Westminster's Confession of Faith, Heidelberg Catechism and Second Helm of Confession. "
The "Rapture" is a reference to "lifted up" as found in 1 Thessalonians 4:17, when "dead in Christ" and "we who live and remain" will be lifted up into the clouds to meet God.
Another type enters the living Heaven, with body and soul, mentioned in the Old Testament: the Elijah (Elijah), and the patriarch Enoch (the ancestor of Noah).
Catholicism
The Roman Catholic Church distinguishes between "The Ascension", where Christ ascends to heaven by his own power, and "The Assumption" in which Mary, the mother of Jesus, is resurrected to heaven by the power of God. (Enoch and Elijah are said in the scriptures to have been "assumed" [experienced assumptions] to heaven.)
On November 1, 1950, Pope Pius XII, acting ex cathedra, issued Munificentissimus Deus, an official statement of the official doctrine of Roman Catholicism. In Section 44, the pope stated:
By the authority of our Lord Jesus Christ, of the Blessed Apostles of Peter and Paul, and by our own authority we declare, proclaim, and define it as a divinely revealed dogma: that the Mother of Immaculate God, the Virgin Mary, has completed her worldly life , assumed body and soul into heavenly glory.
This doctrine is based on the Sacred Tradition that Mary, the mother of Jesus, is physically assumed to heaven. For centuries before, the assumption was celebrated in art. The proclamation states that Mary suffered physical death before being assumed to Heaven. Some theologians argue that Mary did not die, but this is contrary to the text of the proclamation of dogma.
Eastern Christianity
The Eastern Orthodox Church teaches that three others were taken to heaven: Enoch, Elijah (Elias) and Theotokos (the Virgin Mary). Similar to Mary's "Assumption" in the West, Orthodox celebrates Theotokos's Dormition on August 15th. Unlike Western uncertainty about Mary's physical death, Orthodox teaches that Mary died naturally like any other human being, that she was buried by the Apostles (except Thomas, who was late), and three days later (after Thomas arrived) was found missing from her grave. The Church teaches that the Apostles received revelation as long as Theotokos appeared to them and told them that he had been resurrected by Jesus and took the body and soul to heaven. Orthodox taught that Mary has enjoyed the fullness of heavenly happiness that will be experienced by other saints only after the Last Judgment.
There are teachings among the Orthodox that the "Two Witnesses" mentioned in Revelation 11: 3-13 are Enoch and Elijah, who will be sent back to earth to preach the gospel at the time of apostasy, and will be the last Christian martyrs before the Second Coming. According to Revelation, they will be resurrected and up again to heaven.
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Helenistic Religion
- Hercules is believed, after the completion of his twelve works, was elevated to Olympus, though in some versions, his mortal half burned down after his death, allowing half the gods to ascend and join his pious family..
- Apollonius of Tyana is said to have been assumed to Elysium by Philostratus.
Hinduism
Yudhishthira of the Mahabharata is believed to be the only man to cross the plane between man and heaven in mortal bodies. But before him, his brother Arjun had been to heaven and lived there for 5 years in his human body. His uncles, Bisma, had lived and studied in heaven. His ancestor, Puru has been to heaven. Indeed, many kings, including Nahush who was received in heaven in their human bodies.
Sant Tukaram
Sant Tukaram was brought to Vaikunta at Garuda Vahan which was witnessed by all the villagers.
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu
Chaitanya Mahaprabhu disappears after entering the god-room of Lord Jagannath's temple.
Swami Ramalinga
Ramalinga Swamigal (Swami Ramalinga), a Sage who is highly respected by his teachings. Ramalinga should reach the Divine Supreme Body when the Divinity itself joins him. He is reported to have disappeared after deciding to remove the immortal body by his own will, his body never found.
Mirra Alfassa
The Mother (Mirra Alafassa), a prominent student of the Hindu philosopher and teacher Sri Aurobindo, attempted his physical transformation of his body to become what he felt was the first of a new type of human individual by opening Supramental Truth Awareness, the new spirits of power discovered by Sri Aurobindo. He believed that he could create for himself a new kind of "body light". However, he died and was cremated.
Meera Bai
Meera Bai poet devotion also disappeared when he entered the holy place in Dwarikadheesh Temple and was supposed to be in vaikuntha.
Islam
Islamic teachings state that Muhammad ascended to heaven alive on the Dome of the Rock site. However, this ascent is temporary and he returns to Earth. This is thought to be derived from the exact description presented in the Quran and Hadith.
Islamic texts deny the idea of ​​crucifixion or death attributed to Jesus by the New Testament. The Qur'an states that people (ie, Jews and Romans) sought to kill Jesus, but they could not crucify or kill him, even though "this was made to manifest themselves to them". Muslims believe that Jesus was not crucified but instead he was resurrected by God to heaven. This "raising" is often understood through bodily elevation.
Some Islamic scholars have identified the prophet Idris to be the same person as Enoch of the Bible. This is because the Qur'an states that God "raised him to a high place", and it has been regarded as a term to ascend, which is then concluded that "Idris" is "Enoch".
Judaism
In the Hebrew Bible the word for "heaven" is shamayim . It is plural - it means "heaven", not "heaven" - but seems to have a single meaning: the older parts of the Bible speak of the "heavens" in the plural but the evidence for belief in more than one heaven from the Bible is lacking. Shamayim also means "sky", atmosphere, as it does in modern English. The sky blue dome is called raqia , and is believed to be a solid shield between the atmosphere and the true paradise of God's abode. Heaven is the realm of God, the earth of mankind, and the underworld is for the dead, and the journey between them is generally impossible, though God and His messenger often appear on earth and the dead can be summoned from hell as Witches of Endor calling shadows Samuel.
There are two possible exceptions to this general rule that man can not go to heaven, Enoch and Elijah, but both are unclear. Genesis mentions Enoch as "no longer" because "God takes him," but does not explicitly say whether he lives or dies, and does not say where God took him. The Book of Kings describes the prophet Elijah who was brought to "shamayim" in a whirlwind, but the word can mean either heaven as the abode of God, or the sky (as the word "sky" in modern English), and so again the text is ambiguous.
According to the post-Bible Jewish Midrash, eight people go to heaven (also called the Garden of Eden and Paradise) live:
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- Elijah (King II Chapter 2, Paragraph 11)
- Serach, daughter of Asher - one of Jacob's sons (Midrash Yalkut Shimoni (Yechezkel 367))
- Enoch (Genesis 5: 22-24)
- Eliezer, Abraham's servant
- Hiram, king of Tire
- Ebed-Melech, Ethiopian
- Jaabez, the son of Rabbi Yehudah ha-Nazi
- Bithiah, Pharaoh's daughter
Zoroastrianism
It is believed in Zoroastrianism that Peshotanu was taken to Heaven alive and will one day return as a Zoroastrian messiah.
Enhanced Main Doctrine
Francis Bacon is believed to have experienced physical ascension without dying (he later became the god of St. Germain) by members of various Teachings of Teachers, a New Age religious group based on Theosophy. They also believe many others have experienced the Ascension; they are referred to as Ascended Masters and worshiped in this religious group. The leaders of these religions claim to be able to receive messages channeled from the Ascended Masters, which they then pass on to their followers.
Fictitious depictions
- In C. S. Lewis The Terrifying Power , those who ascended to heaven alive included Melchizedek, Frederick Barbarossa, King Arthur and Elwin Ransom.
- In C. S. Lewis The Voyage of the Dawn Treader , Reepicheep Mouse is allowed to travel to Aslan's Country while alive. He is next seen in the Last Battle where he was the first to greet the protagonists when they arrived at Aslan's Country.
- In the legend J.R. Tolkien Middle-earth, Elf who is bored with life in Middle-earth can sail westward to the Land of Death. Some humans also follow this route, including EÃÆ'¤rendil, the bearer of the Bilbo Baggins Ring, Frodo Baggins, and Sam Gamgee, and Dwarf Gimli.
- In the fictional world of the Stargate franchise, The Ancients, has learned how to "ride" from physical planes and have moved on to a higher realm of existence.
- In Gabriel GarcÃÆ'a MÃÆ'¡rquez's Hundred Years of Loneliness, Remedios the Beauty, is said to be the most beautiful woman ever seen in Macondo, who inadvertently caused the death of some man who loves or craves her. He seems most of the city as naively innocent, and some come to think that he is mentally handicapped. However, Colonel Aureliano BuendÃÆ'a believes he inherits great clarity: "It's as if he's back from twenty years of war", he said. He rejected clothes and beauty. Too beautiful and, arguably, too wise for the world, Remedios climbed into the sky one afternoon in the afternoon at 4 pm, folding Fernanda's white sheet.
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References
- The Religious Encyclopedia s.v. Increase; Eliade, Mircea, ed. in the head. New York, Macmillan 1987
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