Someone can ascend into heaven while still living on earth

Summary:

There is evidence in the Bible that someone can ascend into heaven while still living on earth.

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2 Corinthians 12:

Paul wrote: "I-know (a) man in Christ, fourteen years ago, WHETHER IN (THE) BODY, I-DO NOT KNOW, OR OUTSIDE (OF) THE BODY, I-do not know. God knows, (that) SUCH (A ONE WAS) SNATCHED-AWAY TO (THE) THIRD HEAVEN. And I-know such (a) man; WHETHER IN (THE) BODY OR APART-FROM THE BODY, I-do not know. God knows that HE-WAS-SNATCHED-AWAY INTO PARADISE" (2 Corinthians 12:2-4).

Here Paul, while still living on the earth, described how he would have been snatched into heaven.

Paul described that this happened "WHETHER IN (THE) BODY OR APART-FROM THE BODY, I-do not know" (2 Corinthians 12:3). This showed that Paul did not preclude that this could happen in the body or out of his body (that is, going somewhere with his spirit into heaven while his body remains on earth). 

Revelation 4:

John wrote: "I-saw, and behold, (THERE WAS AN) OPENED DOOR IN HEAVEN, and the first voice which I-heard speaking with me like (the sound of a) trumpet saying, “ASCEND HERE and I-will-show you (the things) which must take-place after these (things)”. IMMEDIATELY I-WAS IN (THE) SPIRIT. And behold, (a) throne was-setting (there) IN HEAVEN" (Revelation 4:1-2).

John here described how he ascended into heaven with his human spirit (while his body remained on the earth), as he was "IN (THE) SPIRIT" (Revelation 4:2).

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