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\u201cTo demythologize the ascension is not to deny that Jesus \u201cwent to heaven\u201d; it is simply to find a way of expressing this in language which takes it out of the realm of current or future space research\u201d<\/span> (James D. G. Dunn, in his article \u201cMyth\u201d in the Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels<\/em> (Downers Grove: IVP, 1992) p.568).<\/div>\n
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