"if it were a state of mind Christ would have said",,,"today we are together in paradise",,,,that is as they hung together on their crosses(in the same mind-frame),,,,"paradise",,Strong's #3857,,,,is used (3 times)in scripture,,Luke 23;43,,,2cor.12;4,,and rev.2;7,,,,,
(1) in Luke 23;43,,it is stated by Christ himself that they would be their together(today)not present tense as they hung on the cross,,,but future tense (after death),that they would be their together.
(2) rev.2.7,,,"eat of the tree of life ect.,,,,midst of the paradise of god",,,here is also the "tree of life",,,which was in the garden of Eden,,gen.2;9-17,,,,
(3),,,which i took out of order on purpose,,,,"second Corinthians 12;4",,,,,"which things are not lawful to utter",,,verse one of chapter 12,,"visions and revaluations",,,,,,verse 2 and 3 he explains twice if he was dead and really there he did not know,,or if almost dead and then shown this in a vision????,,,,,"god knows",,,,,but notice Paul did not know if he did die and then saw this and was then raised from the dead, or if he was stoned almost to death and was shown a vision,,,"god knoweth"........
but you said in the beginning "it was a Hebrew word",,,paradise,,tho it is not it is Greek,,i waited patiently for you to connect it to the garden of Eden,,,where the tree of life is,,,,,,,,gen 2;15,,,put the man,,,did you notice he was not created in the garden(paradise),,,but put there later??????,,,and then driven out?????,,,,and who named what?,notice god named some gen.1;5-gen2;19,,,,,,,here is another clue,,,,,Adam did not name it,,,,,,god did,,,,,