“I remember Ann Romney saying that they believe Romney’s dad is always with him”
Any scriptural support for that position? I see it as the same fallacy that we turn into “guardian angels” when we die. Completely unsupported, and in fact heretical (not a pejorative, just an observation).
But you do know that when we go home to God, we are changed.
No eyeglasses, no arthritis, no canes, no wheelchairs, no heart disease, cancer,etc. We will have new bodies.
Read the book “Heaven is for Real”. That confirms what the Bible does say.
Isaiah 14:13 is good enough for me.
You said in your heart, “I will ascend to heaven; I will raise my throne above the stars of God; I will sit enthroned on the mount of assembly, on the utmost heights of the sacred mountain.
The ascension of Isaiah. And then there are Enoch and Elijah, taken to heaven before their deaths.
2 Kings 2:11 and Hebrews 11:5
And there was the transfiguration of Moses.
The scriptures even mentions 3 heavens, and Jesus spoke of the House of many mansions. Guess that’s just for the one-percenters.
I don’t believe that we sleep until the day of judgement. Nor do I believe that we immediately sprout wings. That takes a little more soul growth in the uppermost of heavens.