It doesn't matter what you believe...What's God's word say about it??? Do you know???
No one said that heaven was in anyone’s “mind”, but simply whether it occupied physical space, which we cannot know.
More doublespeak...
markomalley said it...Your popes have said it...
The ancients believed that heaven existed beyond the sphere which held the stars, and that hell occupied a void within the earth. Are you one of those people who believes that heaven and hell must be located in a precise spot such as a moon of Saturn or a nearby solar system or perhaps on a quasar,
Of course I do...God said it so I believe it...Who talked you out of it???
The amount of real estate in heaven is beside the point, but that certainly does not imply as you suggest that heaven is simply a projection of our intellect or imagination, nor that we do not believe in the resurrection of the body.
Well, do you believe in the resurrection of the body??? If you do, what are these physical bodies going to do without a physical place to stand on??? Just float around somewhere???
We simply say that heaven, wherever it is, is not necessarily going to be constrained by the laws of physics.
And it is not necessarily not going to be either...Now there's some logic...And based on what??? Must be intellect, eh??? God created physics...God says he created Heaven, to live in...
We know what is in the Bible, we know what tradition tells us, we know what we can reason. Yet God has left us with mysteries.
Tell me, how big is heaven and where is it? When we are resurrected in body and spirit, what form will our bodies take? That of our youth, out old age, or something else? If we lost a finger or limb in life, will it be reunited with us? What exactly did Jesus mean by “today” when He spoke to the second thief on the cross? Does Genesis 1 mean that heaven is under the sea, or is it surrounded by water somewhere else? Given that our bodies will be resurrected, will we need to eat in heaven or will our bodies be somehow different than in mortal life so that they will not require food? Why or why not? Please answer these questions directly, based on your particular theology, without incorporating statements about your opinion of Catholicism into your answer.