II Cor . 5:6-8
6Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7(For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
Excellent. Paul does, however, talk about receiving a new body by casting off the old man. The critical component here is the idea of a new Heaven and a new Earth. I like the understanding of a return to Eden as the new Earth.
YES!!
ICorinthians 15:51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not *ALL* sleep, but we shall *ALL* be change,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the *LAST* trump (there are 7 trumps); for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
54"..saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory."
55 "O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory?"
Hebrews 2:14 Forasmuch *THEN* as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, He also Himself likewise took part of the same; that through *death* He might destroy him that had the power of *death*, that is, the *DEVIL*;
IPeter 3:18 For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the Just for the unjust, that HE might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh,
but *quickened* by the Spirit:
19 By which also He went and preached unto the spirits in prison,
20 Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight *SOULS* were saved by water.