Where is heaven? Sky or?

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Hey everyone, I just have a quick question. So when I pray, and speak to God, I look up to the sky. I just made this a habit because I just had the mindset that heaven is located up there in the sky and hell is located down there underground ya know. But recently I was praying to God, saying that I only worship God the father in heaven and asking for strength, but someone told me I was committing blasphemy because I was looking to the sky where the planets are. Now that I think about it, I see why they have that misconception, but would it be sinful to look up to the sky while praying? I mean many people point to the sky when thanking God. And is there actually a true location for heaven?
 
I don’t believe there is a physical location regarding heaven. After all, we are talking about a spiritual dimension. I also don’t understand how you might be committing blasphemy by looking upward when you pray. I don’t think it matters where you look; the important thing is the sincerity of your prayer.
 
One question I have is if Heaven is not in our physical universe why does the Bible say Jesus “ascended” into Heaven?
 
From the Catholic Encyclopedia
Theologians, therefore, generally hold that the heaven of the blessed is a special place with definite limits. Naturally, this place is held to exist, not within the earth, but, in accordance with the expressions of Scripture, without and beyond its limits. All further details regarding its locality are quite uncertain. The Church has decided nothing on this subject.
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Since the Church hasn’t definitively taught anything on the location of heaven, we don’t really know for sure. I’m of the opinion that hell is inside the earth and heaven is somewhere out in space.
 
Probably on the outer side of the universe lol. Somewhere we can never get to.
 
Because we humans tend to anthropormiphise everything and for eons we placed the realm above the Earth as the place of the gods.
The Apostles witnessed Him elevating above the ground, He could just have puffed out of our reality however to our psyche Jesus “ascending” has a more definitive aspect. HE was gone from Earth for good, for the time being. In other words HIS human to human interaction was ended at that moment.
 
Nothing wrong to look upward, many Saints have done so in the past. Be careful though, In Heaven GOD is a triune being. Father, Son and Holy Spirit are One GOD.
Me too went trough a phase like that, mostly because I could wrap my mind around the trinity, not that I understand it fully now. Just that I have come to accept it. After all it is in the Bible 😁
 
The Cathechism states…
2794 This biblical expression does not mean a place (“space”), but a way of being; it does not mean that God is distant, but majestic. Our Father is not “else where”: he transcends everything we can conceive of his holiness. It is precisely because he is thrice holy that he is so close to the humble and contrite heart
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This is how I understand it.

Is is a way of being. It is to be. God is. He is the I am. Simply to be.

Looking up helps our need to physically see something big. The sky is big. But also in other languages. The sky is called heaven, and outer space is called heaven and well heaven the way of being is also called heaven.
 
Heavens(Paradise) is in out of universe as material but could not be kind of our physical world but not just spiritual. The next universe is like an envelope which surround our universe. There are many circular universes which such as we call (in Islamic terminology) “Barzah” in which the souls will stand until last day, “Sidra”, “Kursy”, Arsh A’zam etc. God surround all matter and universes. So to which direction we look or turn God is there. We as Muslims rise and lok our hands to sky. The earths is like a sphere and God is in all directions because God has no a material place but an eternal entity which surround all places.

Heavens is a place as physical. Believers who make good deeds will get into Heavens with a body which is fitting.
 
It is a real place - location unknown. Hell is also real.

24 So he cried out, ‘Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. For I am in agony in this fire.’ 25 But Abraham answered, ‘Child, remember that during your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things. But now he is comforted here, while you are left to suffer. 26 And besides all this, a great chasm has been fixed between us and you, so that even those who wish cannot cross from here to you, nor can anyone cross from there to us.’…
 
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I was pondering about this and this came to me…In the beginning before the big bang happened the Universe did not exist. After the big bang the Universe exploded from a single point. However Heaven already existed as GOD existed. And GOD is not located in 1 place, HE created the Universe from nothing and 1 initial point. This is why the ancient people were right to say that the Earth was the center of the Universe.
In fact every single point of our Universe came forth from that original single point and therefore they all ARE the center of the Universe. Hard to visualize but true none the less. Any how Heaven is not inside the Universe. But the Universe can be inside Heaven…So technically no matter where one looks to Heaven can be there too. 🙂
 
In the old charts, whether the earth or the sun was at the center, the penultimate circle belonged to Saturn, and the outer circle belonged to Uranous, the greek word for heavens.

Now the circle (or elipse) belongs to Uranus, a planet named for the personification of the Heavens. Perhaps Heaven is there, on that planet or one of its moons? Or even beyond those heavens, on a planet or planetoid in the Ort Cloud or beyond?

What hasn’t been said yet, is that Jesus preached that the Kingdom of God is in our midst. The prayer he taught asks that the Kingdom would come to us, “on earth as it is in Heaven.” Perhaps we should spend more time looking around us, instead of off into the sky?
 
meltzerboy2 said:
I don’t believe there is a physical location regarding heaven. After all, we are talking about a spiritual dimension.
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Physical location, as in part of our universe, you are possibly correct. A (purely) spiritual dimension, can’t be right, after all we will be there body and soul (hopefully).
 
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