The Christian confession regarding salvation is not that we are translated to some spiritual “heaven.” Rather, we believe in “the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting.” Matthew Levering quotes R.R. Reno on this hope of Christians:

The divine Son … became incarnate, suffered, and died for us in order to give “us a new future in the flesh, not a new metaphysical location.”

-Matthew Levering, Jesus and the Demise of Death: Resurrection, Afterlife, and the Fate of the Christian