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 dont think Gods worried about that. This has shaken my faith.
Will my mom and I lose the teeth weve lost and are about to lose for eternity? What about amputees such as my moms aunt/my great aunt, who died in her 80s in 1981, legless and blind from diabetes? Will they remain limbless in heaven?
Please help me on this.
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Matthew 22, Verse 30:
For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven.
Regards,
I try to hold my tongue as much as possible, but people! Read your Bibles. Attend church. Go to Bible study. Some of these posts are pretty pitiful. These answers are generally easy to find. When you ask Jesus to save you, do you even understand what you are saying? This is NOT fire insurance. The day you are Baptized, you are expected to “Follow Jesus”. Jesus is “The Word”. Read Him! Love Him! Follow Him! He has all the answers if you will just go to Him and seek Him. All the worry we do here is a waste if you love Him.
Nope. Our new bodies will be like that of the resurrected Jesus. Read I Corinthians 15.
Christ’s new body was physical in nature. He ate fish.
There used to be a dental implant doctor around here who had a billboard that said, “Don’t die with your teeth in a glass.” I wondered what difference it makes where your teeth are when you die. Teeth are for the living.
After we die, our bodies eventually are going to be destroyed anyway, one way or another. “Dust thou art, and to dust shalt thou return.” I have no idea what life after death is like, or what the resurrected body will be like, but trusting in the good God, I know He will take care of what we need.
Jesus addressed no marriage and we will be "like" angels in Matthew 22:30 and Mark 12:25. That doesn't mean we will be angels, but there will be a semblance: probably reference to bodies not subject to decay and such: fit for eternity.
Forgot to show you 1 Cor 15:52-53. This is a key passage on imperishable being put on when we are resurrected.
Will we be with family? Depends. Are they saved by Jesus Christ? 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 is your passage, pay attention to 17.
Will we be as a family unit? Much different. We will all be in one family. The family of God. Matthew 12:47-50, Jesus is teaching who the real family is, not the earthly family. The only relationships that go into eternity are those who respond to the Gospel.
1 Thessalonians 4:13-18.
Philippians 3:20, 21.
Our physical bodies turn to dust and forever gone. We all get spiritual bodies when we get to heaven.
I wasn’t going to post it, but you did, so /highfive.
(Just trying to start a smile!) :-)
Well, we probably will always have ‘bodies’ of some sort; but the concern over ‘teeth’ and ‘bones’ seems silly to me.
We have no idea what kind of ‘bodies’ we will have ‘on the other side’.
It seems logical that we will have ‘bodies’ suitable to the environment that we find ourselves in. But we just keep forcing our Earthly, flesh-and-blood ideas onto a new existence/dimension that we can’t even imagine - and so we worry about ‘teeth and bones’, ‘amputations’, etc.
Seems like a really silly thought-exercise to me.
I’m content to just wait until I get there, and go with the flow. I’m pretty sure that God has it all figured out for me, and I don’t have to worry about it :-)
Some people get caught up on silly questions. Many people, when they first heard of our bodies being transfigured into our immortal bodies have wondered if that was going to be painful.
The question should just be answered without judgement.
I’ve often wondered that very thing...
If I was just a bag of dog poo in heaven, I’d be ok with it. Better than a flaming bag of dog poo....
I’m not worried.
We probably have an endless procession of ‘immortal bodies’ ahead of us.
And, whatever happens at the moment of death (and I personally believe that it’s probably engineered to be quite merciful):
What sense does it make to be worried about something that is inevitable?
Just LIVE! Just live as fully as you can, with as much love and exuberance and curiosity that you can!
I think that’s why God put us here, and that’s what He expects out of us.
“Adam had his eternal body from the beginning of his creation.”
Our pastor has mentioned how just like Adam (who was, as you mentioned, doing what he was supposed to do forever) - that we will have bodies, eating, drinking, and doing work. Of course before the Fall - work was fun. It was only after the fall that it became a burden.
“And there will be science too! Adam giving all the animals names - that sounds like science to me!”
Prior to our pastor saying that I thought that a good friend of mine, on his death bed, was just delusional. He woke up once, said “The rock outcrops are amazing!” - then went back to sleep. He was (is?) a geologist.
Another time he woke up and said “Beer. There’s beer.”
That’s funny. I appreciate humour on these realizations.
You will be a never ending spiritual orgasm of happiness.
At his funeral, the pastor was talking about how my friend wasn’t the most regular attender at church, but he was valued by many. The pastor then gave a whole bunch of examples, and summed it up with something like “And though it may not have been obvious, he was a real saint.”
Later on you could go up to the microphone and say a little something about him. One of his old buddies said “Well - I’ve heard Frank called a lot of things - but ‘saint’ was never one of them!”
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