Earth and Heaven

Despite their constituent differences, the Aristotelian and the Theological concepts of the arc of Human history share a similar destiny--Heaven.  One distinction is their starting point.  Aristotle's arc begins on Earth, whereas the Theological arc begins in Heaven, but falls to Earth, before returning to Heaven.  Now, both concepts of Heaven are finite.  In contrast, the currently predominant concept of Heaven is infinite.  This is the extraterrestrial realm that the Human species has just begin to explore.  So, superficially, the most recent concept of the arc of Human history is similar to some of its prominant predecessors, it is significantly different from them both in one detail, and in the verification of such details, in the empirical discovery of Heaven.