DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HEAVEN AND PARADISE

I never had any form of problem with these two words till recently when I and a friend of mine were insulting each other in a joking way. I said to him “guy you no go enter Heaven for this lie way you just lie” and he replied me by saying “if me no go enter Heaven, you no go enter Paradise”. 

At that moment when we both said what we said we just laughed as we continue to insult and joke with ourselves. Later that day after my friend had gone, I began to reminisce about what he had said and then it hit me and I was like “this guy na mumu, wetin be the difference between Heaven and Paradise” but immediately I said that I began to think about it, what if my friend has a point, what if truly there is a difference between Heaven and Paradise.

We all know that both Heaven and Paradise are up in the sky but what we really don't know is if there is any difference between these two places or probably if Paradise and Heaven are both up in the sky but at different location. I practically stayed awake all night on that very day trying to see if there is any logical sense to whether Heaven and Paradise are two different places and YES! after much logical thinking I can say to you that, if you look at it logically you would also see that Heaven and Paradise are two different places.

We know that Heaven is the opposite of Earth just like Man is to Woman. Now let start with that first, if we say that Heaven is the same thing as Paradise then what we are saying is that Earth is the opposite of Paradise right?  The opposite of Paradise that we all know or should I say that we are use to is Hellfire? Now if the opposite of Paradise is Hellfire, and Paradise and Heaven is the same thing then I guess it is safe to say that Earth (which is naturally the opposite of Heaven) and Hellfire are also one in all. So if we say that Heaven is Paradise then Earth should be Hellfire since Heaven and Paradise are the same.

We were also told that Heaven has seven layers which is why the immediately sky we see is regarded as the first Heaven while the Heaven where we believe or assume God is, is the Seventh Heaven. Now looking at it from this angle, is it safe to also say that Paradise has seven layers since Heaven and Paradise is the same thing?

Another angle that you can look at it from is this, when we die where do our soul go to? Yes we are buried in the ground but where does our soul go to? Heaven is the answer, Heaven is where our souls would be till the day of judgement (please correct me if I am wrong) when God would make his judgement. Now if this is so, is it safe to say that our souls would go to Paradise when we die since Heaven and Paradise is the same thing?

We were told that God created Heavens and Earth and everything in it (please correct me if I am wrong) and due to man’s curiosity we have been able to know and appreciate some of the things God created on Earth like the Mountain and hill, flowers and Trees, the air that we breathe just to mention a few but humans don't live in Heaven (at least not for now) so we can only keep guessing what Heaven looks like and some of the things that are there. Although the scientists and archaeologist has made us to believe that Paradise is not on Earth but in Heaven so if that is the case why do we still say Heaven and Paradise is the same thing?

In as much as we might try not to believe it, there is a logical difference between Heaven and Paradise and the difference is the fact that Paradise a place in Heaven while Heaven is just a place where we have to go first before God decide who goes into Paradise and who doesn't . Thank you