Word: sitteth
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...heaven, exact location not defined. His son came to earth in human flesh, preached and worked miracles, by his death redeemed man, and rose again to heaven, where he "sitteth on the right hand of God." So say the Bible and the Christian creeds; but since the story makes no sense to many literal, science-minded men. the Right Rev. John A. T. Robinson. 43, Anglican Bishop of Woolwich, accommodatingly explains in a new book that the doctrine is mostly dubious. Published last month in a five-shilling paperback gaily titled Honest to God, Bishop Robinson's revision...
Another myth, set forth in the creed, is the idea that Christ "ascended into Heaven." Pike asks "Where? We no longer believe in a three-level universe: a flat earth, Hell below and Heaven above . . . And as for 'sitteth on the right hand of the Father,' I simply remind you that in certain Oriental areas of the Church the phrase is 'on the left hand of the Father,' since in their cultures the latter is the place of honor...