Where Is Heaven?

J.L. Pattison
29 min readAug 29, 2024

The biblical answer may surprise you

“The first gulp from the glass of natural sciences will make you an atheist, but at the bottom of the glass God is waiting for you.” -Werner Heisenberg (Father of Quantum Physics)

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1). THE QUESTION CHRISTIANS CAN’T ANSWER

In preparation for this article I polled a variety of Christians (including six biblically-sound pastors from four different states) asking them this simple question:

Where is heaven?

I specifically wanted to know where heaven was physically located. Below is a sampling of some of the nearly three-dozen answers I received online and in person.

  • “Beyond death”
  • “A non-physical place”
  • “Beyond a spiritual veil”
  • “Outside of the universe”
  • “Beyond the edge of time”
  • “Not in this created realm”
  • “Beyond the limits of space”
  • “Billions of lightyears away”
  • “Outside this box called time and space”
  • “In a completely different dimension than earth”
  • “A physical place in space beyond where mankind can travel”
  • “God is outside of time, so heaven is outside of matter, so it’s…

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J.L. Pattison

Called "A 21st Century Rod Serling," JL Pattison is the author of 4 books of contemporary speculative fiction for modern-day thought criminals. JLPattison.com