The Bible

Jesus used parables – simple stories - to describe heaven, often implying that we can catch a glimpse of heaven as we draw close to him. Talking about his ‘heavenly Father,’ he told his followers that when he left them he was going to his ‘Father’s house’ to prepare a place for them. The Bible explains that Jesus was ‘taken up into heaven’ after he was raised from the dead and had appeared alive to many people, eating meals with some of them, showing that he was not a ghost or an apparition but a living, breathing, physical body.