Posted on 11/08/2018 8:17:55 PM PST by foreverfree
In a few days, my 81 yo mother will be going to an oral surgeon to have two rotted rear teeth removed. In mid December, my dentist will extract a split tooth of mine. (I'd have it done sooner if not for my commuting schedule and the fact that she is booked solid on the only day of the week I'm available for the next few weeks.)
My mom and I are believing Christians (MO Synod Lutherans). Will we Christians get our lost body parts back when God takes us home? Please cite Scripture.
I ask this because my belief that we will have perfect bodies in heaven was shaken by a conversation my mom and I about that verse in Revelation “Behold I will make everything new”. Does that verse include the saved souls?
I ran a question to that effect past mom and she said (perhaps not paying attention), “I don’t think God’s worried about that.” This has shaken my faith.
Will my mom and I lose the teeth we’ve lost and are about to lose for eternity? What about amputees such as my mom’s aunt/my great aunt, who died in her 80’s in 1981, legless and blind from diabetes? Will they remain limbless in heaven?
Please help me on this.
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You know all those fingernail clipping you cut off? They will be returned to you along with all the hair you cut off and shaved off.
Feel better now?
‘Perpetually Comfortable’ sounds like a dead end.
I think we’re still going to be presented with new opportunities to learn and grow - and that will necessarily involve some obstacles to overcome, and rejoicing in the overcoming.
At least, I hope so: I don’t want to just float around, never learning anything new, never growing further...never encountering an opportunity to overcome.
Will there be feral apostrophes in heaven?
I feel silly asking but will the new bodies be male and female and will the family unit that we have on earth be reunited?
I believe that we have barely scratched the surface of what there is to know about our existence.
I think we will have the privilege of being teachers to an entire universe about our experiences.
It is likely how Adam and Eve lived before the fall is how we were always intended to live and how we will be returned when this is all over.
They were created as they were supposed to be and how they would be, if they did not fall.
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I do not believe the bodies in Heaven will be physical bodies, at all.
We will be healed and not be able to pee or have sex, either.
This is a crazy question. Either live with rot in your mouth or starve to death.
If you are not going to get your moms mouth fixed, you are not using the brains God gave you.
In heaven you will get your 72 virgins. But your rotten teeth will be a huge turn off.
Jesus said there is no marriage that survives in Heaven.
I see no reason why we couldn’t “look each other up,” but otherwise, no.
What makes you think you are going to heaven?
It is generally referred to as a "glorified body".
This is partly because "no man can see God and live". We literally can not stand to be in his presence in our current form.
As to what the body will be like... there are many theories but there is not much in the Bible about it. Just that there will be no crying, grief or pain. There is another verse that says that we will be "like the angels in heaven".
The Great Commission promises all that follow Christ will be in Him, regardless of anything else.
In Heaven, after the general Resurrection, our bodies will be restored and glorified.
This is a good question, and I hope my answer will give some piece of mind. The short answer is yes, in our glorified bodies we will be restored, as Christ was in His glorified body.
However, this is a tough one to prove using only Scripture. I hope that you will indulge me in standing on the shoulders of some giants (including some Catholic ones, as I know them better) to give some explanation...
Luther, in his Large Catechism (Part II, Article III, #58) says:
For now we are only half pure and holy, so that the Holy Ghost has ever [some reason why] to continue His work in us through the Word, and daily to dispense forgiveness, until we attain to that life where there will be no more forgiveness, but only perfectly pure and holy people, full of godliness and righteousness, removed and free from sin, death, and all evil, in a new, immortal, and glorified body.
And this glorified body is the key... it has in it the property of Integrity. In the Catechism of the Council of Trent (Article XI), the corresponding part of the Nicene Creed pertaining to the resurrection of the body is explained as such:
The Body Shall Rise Substantially the Same: [...] It is a truth conveyed by the Apostle when he says: This corruptible must put on incorruption, evidently designating by the word this, his own body. [a reference to I Cor 15:53-55] It is also clearly expressed in the prophecy of Job: In my flesh I shall see my God, whom I myself shall see, and mine eyes behold, and not another. [a reference to Job 19:25-27]
Further, this same truth is inferred from the very definition of resurrection; for resurrection, as Damascene defines it, is a return to the state from which one has fallen. [...]
Restoration Of All That Pertains To The Nature And Adornment Of The Body: Not only will the body rise, but whatever belongs to the reality of its nature, and adorns and ornaments man will be restored. For this we have the admirable words of St. Augustine: There shall then be no deformity of body; if some have been overburdened with flesh, they shall not resume its entire weight. All that exceeds the proper proportion shall be deemed superfluous. On the other hand, should the body be wasted by disease or old age, or be emaciated from any other cause, it shall be repaired by the divine power of Christ, who will not only restore the body unto us, but will repair whatever it shall have lost through the wretchedness of this life. In another place he says: Man shall not resume his former hair, but shall be adorned with such as will become him, according to the words: "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." God will restore them according to His wisdom.
Restoration Of All That Pertains To The Integrity Of The Body: But the members especially, because they belong to the integrity of human nature, shall all be restored at once. The blind from nature or disease, the lame, the maimed and the paralysed in any of their members shall rise again with entire and perfect bodies. Otherwise the desires of the soul, which so strongly incline it to a union with the body, would be far from satisfied; but we are convinced that in the resurrection these desires will be fully realised.
Besides, the resurrection, like the creation, is clearly to be numbered among the principal works of God. As, therefore, at the creation all things came perfect from the hand of God, we must admit that it will be the same in the resurrection.
These observations are not to be restricted to the bodies of the martyrs, of whom St. Augustine says: As the mutilation which they suffered would prove a deformity, they shall rise with all their members; otherwise those who were beheaded would rise without a head. The scars, however, which they received shall remain, shining like the wounds of Christ, with a brilliance far more resplendent than that of gold and of precious stones. [...]
And this body will also have the properties of Christ's glorified body that we see in the post-Resurrection accounts of the Gospels, as we shall be made to be like Him.
Finally, Thomas Aquinas explains it in his Summa Theologica (Supplement, Question 80, Article I, sed contra) as such:
[...] Further, "The works of God are perfect" (Deuteronomy 32:4). But the resurrection will be the work of God. Therefore man will be remade perfect in all his members.
The works of God are perfect... and so be at peace.
God bless you.
I think you are absolutely right!
We’ve been given such a marvelous opportunity to EXPERIENCE; to learn from that experience, become something greater because of it - and then to share what we’ve learned.
Too many people limit their understanding of their existence to these few years on Earth.
We are living forever; and this material world is just a small segment of the endless existence and opportunity to which we can look forward.
Well... Speaking strictly as an agnostic, why would you need (or for that matter even want) a physical body in a spiritual domain?
Par35 provides the chapter and verse.
Scripture tells us that we MUST be born again to enter Heaven. God is speaking of spirit, because He is Spirit. To be a Son of God, God MUST be the Father of it. His Sons are the angels, Adam, Jesus, and now us. If you are NOT born of the Spirit, you cannot have God as your Father and you cannot enter Heaven with Him. In various places in the Bible, our bodies are described as a tent, a house, a tabernacle, or a temple. When Jesus said I must go prepare a place for you, In my Father's House, there are many Mansions, he is speaking about a resurrected body as the mansion. We don't need a building because there is no sleep and no night there, so why have a dwelling place like on earth? This new body doesn't get sick, no pain, doesn't die, and is capable of many supernatural things. He said we see through a glass darkly now, but then we will see Him as He is and we will be like Him. Can He travel through walls, space and time, to other galaxies?
Forget this dying "tent", it will turn to dust again as in Genesis 2. Read 1 Cor 15 very carefully and know that it will be like looking at an acorn now and your new body will be an oak tree. Our imaginations cannot comprehend what is coming to the faithful overcomers. Missing teeth, limbs, and pain will be forgotten.
It would be a waste of time to have the marriage supper of the lamb if you can’t chew anything. People don’t want to admit it but the body that you have is made in the image and likeness of God. It look like him only he is better looking because hes God. I’ve heard people say that’s only a metaphor only a symbol. Balderdash. Job said in the Old Testament I know that my redeemer lives and even if my flesh is eaten by worms yet with my own eyes will I see God. People in heaven are not corrupted zombies walking around with rotting limbs. The heavenly body has all the good properties of the earthly body in its except it is glorified. That means it has powers. You can walk through a wall eat a meal get up and walk out through that wall that you came in period to Jesus that was no miracle that was his resurrection body. he was the 1st born among many brethren. We shall be like him for we shall see him as he is. The resurrection is physical it is supernatural and a can operate in any environment. Any. It is incorruptible. That’s what scripture says over and over again their scripture for every one of those statements. God promised and he’s not a liar. go look at numbers 23:19. In heaven you’re not some white blob floating around in the air. They got chairs up there . They have rivers and houses and crops people are busy doing stuff they’re more alive and they’re busier than we are and they don’t have to sleep. THEY make Donald trump look like a sleepaholic. They have a supernatural body until the physical one is resurrected and they are joined together perfectly just like your body and spirit are joined together right now (only without corruption).
Some people don’t believe what The Bible says literally and that’s their right but it is literature and you take it literally because its letters on paper. Never let your faith be shaken. God has OUR back and perfectly indestructable DNA. This whole situation is a done deal just as was promised and that would not it’s not like an election night recount. We Just have to walk it out, wait and behave till the completion so that the whole family both in heaven and earth can be gloricied together.
Did you hear the one about the dyslexic, agnostic insomniac?
He would lay awake at night, wondering if there was a dog.
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