I went to seminary with a former NASA scientist. The question: how fast would Jesus at the ascension have to have travel to reach escape velocity? Email letter.
hanks Padrino. So being that Jesus, a self-propellant force (hence the ascension not the assumption) he simply would have needed to apply a constant velocity from the moment he began the ascension, correct?
As far as for Pentecost, granted “the Spirit blows where he wills”, would we say that the energy of the tounges of fire would have traveled as particles (photons) or more as waves?
However it what the ascension was about was Jesus making it to heaven up up and away, then today would be a sad day, it would be the physical departure of Jesus from our lives.
However, Jesus ascension to heaven is something we need to rediscover. Not just heaven as a different place. What is heaven? Its not just the endless session of days. Its beyond time. Its entering a new reality but not a separate. It’s a deeper and richer reality. Story Flat land, a sphere visits flateland. A circle becomes richer as a sphere.
We live our life too much in a 2 D world.
So heaven is a richer reality beyond time and change. We need to understand what is heaven. We need to see more depth to the world around us and the reality of heaven as a reality here and now yet richer not separate from ours.
Imagine your son going off to war. And while there his is captured and imprisoned. But he also finds a lost brother. Then the soldier is tortured as the father watches. What would be the experience of them coming home? Now imagine that reality frozen. In the
Anthony Baglieri 17 year old kid falls from scaffolding paralyized He went through a time of depression and despair. Then he was prayed over and had a total conversion. He became a man of the cross who prayed with those around him. He would even call sick people and offer them comfort and learned how to write with his mouth. When he was buried he asked to be buried wearing running clothing.