what always gets me when people have out-of-body experiences in the hospitals, they come back and said they saw their relatives in heaven, my question always is that how can they see their relatives when it’s their souls that are in heaven and not their bodies?
What are we to “see” if not the bodies, or at least the images of them as they were “in life,”?
We will have resurrected bodies - just like Jesus had. Jesus ate, passed fish to his friends, etc. He even said something like “I am not a ghost - do ghost’s eat!?”
(Which I think is interesting in the aspect of are ghosts real or not - would imply that they are!?)
Oh - unless your question relates to the timing of the bodily resurrection. I guess some believe that won’t happen until Jesus returns. I don’t know enough about all of that. And it doesn’t matter too much to me now what all of the details are. I know God and Jesus - and they have a great plan for me! I guess I would like to think that my mom and dad and sister, all who loved Christ, are up in Heaven already. And perhaps they are - but just in spirit. Or perhaps with perfect bodies, or perhaps they are just “asleep” until the final judgement. (I guess I should read my Bible more to learn up on those things.)