OC | Question 45-46

45. What do you mean by saying, “He ascended to heaven”?

That Christ, while his disciples watched, was lifted up from the earth to heaven 129 and will be there for our good130 until he comes again to judge the living and the dead.131

^ 129. Luke 24:50-51; Acts 1:9-11
^ 130. Rom. 8:34; Eph. 4:8-10; Heb. 7:23-25; 9:24
^ 131. Acts 1:11

46. But isn’t Christ with us until the end of the world as he promised with us?132

Christ is truly human and truly God. In his human nature Christ is not now on earth;133 but in his divinity, majesty, grace, and Spirit he is not absent from us for a moment.134

^ 132. Matt. 28:20

^ 133. Acts 1:9-11; 3:19-21
^ 134. Matt. 28:18-20; John 14:16-19