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[ancianita]

3. Cool.

As a former atheist, I get it. I also hold, like Sting, that "we are spirits in the material world," and that the energy of spirit goes somewhere. So even taking a sciency approach, I've not read an atheist answer for that. They almost always say "you" die when your body dies. If you agree that there are anti-entropic feelings and actions we humans take, or that one person (say, MLK) can send ripples of spirit that change/heal others, one might consider that there must be something in us that goes somewhere -- cosmos, a collective vibrational place or aura, etc.

The word heaven is dealt with in a book that studies the Aramaic/Hebrew concept of that world.

I understand that you're atheist.
And I'd also say that thousands of years of not giving up on documents about the source(s) of spirit and love -- say, a god, for lack of another word in those languages -- is not for nothing. And that an evolved humans-in-the-cosmos view is certainly not an 'opiate of the people' as my pal, Marx, used to say.

(Sidebar: I also read a lot by theologian Mary Daly back in the day; she should be read by Christian feminists here.)

I've prided myself on my research and intellectual capacities, and I can say that Michael Heiser is a formidable intellect about early ontological concepts of the BC ancients. Those who believe there have been alien visitations would also appreciate their concepts.