Saturday, October 2, 2021

Robert Haddad (RC), “Are there different levels of glory in Heaven?”

Robert Haddad, a Catholic apologist from Australia, just uploaded a video where he not only argues for differing levels of reward in heaven, there are different levels of glory therein:

 

Are there different levels of glory in Heaven?




 

Haddad seems to believe that “third heaven” (2 Cor 12:2) is to be understood as a third level of heaven itself, and should not be understood as some want it desperately to mean (i.e., “first heaven” being the sky and “second heaven” as the stars/universe”).


Further Reading


Paul and the "third heaven" in 2 Corinthians 12:2

Paul's vision in 2 Corinthians 12 and Apocalyptic Eschatology

Early Christians and 1 Corinthians 15:40-42

Possible Origenic Homily and the "third heaven"

"Third Heaven" in 2 Enoch and the Apocalypse of Moses

Jonathan T. Pennington on the Development of Multiple Heavens in the New Testament Era

The "Mormon" interpretation of Matthew 13:8/Mark 4:20 in Fragments of Papias