I have a long explanation of my own thinking on this, but I think it’s most easily phrased as a counter-argument:
How could Heaven NOT be a place of past, present and future (from our current viewpoint), at some level of understanding, and PARTICULARLY in its totality?
Now I can get into the specifics of showing the infinite to beings like us in a finite universe, which put me at “mathematical, logical, and theological ease” vis-a-vis differing accounts of divine revelation as viewed by us. However, I think it’s easier to see that the totality of an object defined as Heaven has to be SUPERIOR to and REFLECTIVE OF both our time and our space, in various if not all ways, to be self-consistent.

I think it is clear that the Bible uses the term heaven to describe these three things – “sky”, “space”, and “afterlife / place of God”. The thing is, ALL OF THESE “places” should EACH have past, present and future, if we can make sense of them. The question in my mind is HOW these “principles of time” are incorporated there (one could say “how time is there”), and HOW those principles are experienced.
Paul’s recounting (either of his own experience or somebody else’s) makes me think that the third is likely to be free of constraints we experience here.
2 Corinthians 12:2–4
New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update
2 I know a man in Christ who fourteen years ago—whether in the body I do not know, or out of the body I do not know, God knows—such a man was caught up to the third heaven.
3 And I know how such a man—whether in the body or apart from the body I do not know, God knows—
4 was caught up into Paradise and heard inexpressible words, which a man is not permitted to speak.

OK – we may part ways here a bit, but just hear me out and see if this makes sense. If it doesn’t – fine – just stick with what keeps you on God’s side.
OK??? FAITH is the most important! 😀
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I’m probably a bit less literal than these folks in your link, but I think this stuff is clearly a metaphor for gravitational capture of water during planetary formation, expressed in language that the people of that era could conceptually understand. Distances to various things are trivia that are not worthy of forcing into the explanation, IMO. The basic notion of water from heaven (outer space) being the source of this planet’s water is profound. Think about that. These people KNEW this. They possessed actual knowledge of CREATION that was GIVEN to them – not guessed or learned through their own science.
They GOT the KNOWLEDGE. FROM SOMEWHERE / SOMEBODY. It happened ON THE PLANET. It was REAL.
All of these things solve when one takes a more creator-centric view of the divine revelation. Or, to borrow a line from Galaxy Quest, “Explain it to him, as you would to a child.”
In my opinion we have fallen in love with the picayune as a trick of SATAN, and have not chosen to make the Bible – all of it – literally true in the BIG PICTURE – by letting go of ALL literalist tendencies to make every last bit of SCIENCE fit into it.
Science was a GRAND deception that way. Most of us in science can’t weight the big and the small properly at the proper time to make it all work out right. And we’re very easy to mislead away from the really good stuff.
Same with the religious using scientific facts. They feel an obligation to “explain it all” – even the picayune. NO! Fuggedaboudit!
It’s like Pi and 3. Three is good enough. Worrying about the difference is a TRICK.
MAKE IT FIT IN REALITY and then EXPLAIN THE DISCREPANCIES FROM THE OPPOSITE (Real Creation) POINT OF VIEW – very likely seeing these discrepancies as not WORTHY of exact revelation.
Yes, stars are technically “above” the waters of the heavens that formed the waters of the Earth. But in our zeal to pull every last detail under the blanket of literalism – even lesser kinds of literalism – we miss the HUGE message that this was advanced, TRUE knowledge, given to men by – LITERALLY – God and/or His agents of creation. It HAPPENED. It was REAL. In our world of PROTONS, NEUTRONS and ELECTRONS. And they did so EXPLAINING IT TO THESE PEOPLE AS IF THEY WERE CHILDREN.
God doesn’t owe us the exact explanation of a single idea from HIS thoughts – something that would break all of the world’s computers at once. He doesn’t even owe us what we can understand. He GIVES US WHAT HE PLEASES. And if God wants to tell us Pi is three, it’s because 3 is GOOD ENOUGH FOR THE WORK. Not because Pi is 3.
Sorry! I have had a huge bone to pick with three camps: (1) scientific atheism, (2) religious literalism and (3) milquetoast mushy “science is real and the Bible is all super-duper magic supernatural and JUST BELIEVE IT DON’T FIGURE IT OUT” Satanic deception.
It was a beautiful Satanic scam. Hug the wording of the Bible so tightly it’s useless as a map. Well, to heck with that.
The Bible is REAL. Figure it OUT. Find the BIG PICTURE.
Yes, I may be all alone on this, but I think I’ve found the trail, and I’m ON IT!!! 😀
I may be all on my own, but I never minded being a scout! 😉