Genesis 5:24 mentions Enoch as one who "walked faithfully with God then he was no more, because God took him away", but it does not explicitly say whether he was alive or dead, and it does not say where God took him. In the Hebrew Bible, there are two exceptions to the general rule that humans could not go to heaven – Enoch and Elijah – but neither is clear. Since death is the normal end to an individual's life on Earth and the beginning of afterlife, entering heaven without dying first is considered exceptional and usually a sign of a deity's special recognition of the individual's piety. In Islam, it is believed that he ascended to heaven while still alive.Įntering heaven alive (called by various religions "ascension", "assumption", or " translation") is a belief held in various religions. Christians believe that Jesus ascended into heaven after his death on the cross.
Ascension of Jesus, by John Singleton Copley.
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