So sorry that some of you could not post on the previous thread.
Here you go!
Like nothing we could ever possibly imagine.
TLDR, but I’ve always felt that we’ll be children in heaven. I have no scripture to back it up, but I’ve read where we’ll recognize our spouses, but not have the same attraction to them, or to anyone for that matter. Personally, I think that it would be pretty cool to be a kid again with that sense of awe and wonder towards our Lord that many times is lost as we become adults.
From my understanding of the Bible - we’ll have a body that pleases G-d.
Perfect in Holy Spirit................................
At a bare minimum I HOPE all my bones will be whole and the steel plates, screws and pins will be gone.
Oh, and I wouldn’t mind being cured of my sinus issues and allergies either...
Two thoughts. First, Jesus said that in the resurrection there would be no marrying or giving in marriage, that we would be like the angels in heaven (Matt.22:30), though to be more accurate this would be because everyone will already be married, in the sense that they will all be the Bride of Christ, married as a unit to Him. How sex is handled, of course, is anyone’s guess.
Second, I once speculated, in a talk I gave a few years ago, that God is outside of the constraints of space and time—which we know is true, that humans on earth are inside the constraints of space and time—which we also know is true—but that angels are outside the constraints of space but inside the constraints of time: they can instantaneously be wherever God needs them to be, but while they can see the future, they cannot be in the future until the future becomes the present.
The purpose of the speculation was an attempt to understand why Satan had it in for us. Lucifer could see what was coming, that God was going to create human beings and destine them to rule over the angels (I Cor. 6:3). Lucifer (”light-bearer,” the presenter of God’s glory) did not want to be supervised by a being created after him, much as we become jealous when a younger person at our work is promoted over us. So Lucifer first tries to overthrow God, gets 1/3 of the angels on his side, and loses. Then he tries to separate humans and God in the Garden and succeeds, but God, instead of letting Satan back into his old job, curses the serpent by, among other things, setting up a plan of redemption—which Satan tries to thwart at every step, from Cain killing Abel all the way to Christ on the cross.
When that doesn’t work—when Jesus is raised from the dead in spite of all of Satan’s efforts to keep His resurrection from occurring—all Satan has left is to try to get as few humans redeemed as possible, and to make the lives of the redeemed so miserable that it will deter others from accepting redemption. But Satan can see what’s coming, though he keeps lying to himself that he can somehow stop it from happening, if only he tries just a little harder. Our resurrection is the ultimate promotion, where we obtain our foreordained position of being second to God, and ruler over angels. Needless to say, I don’t make of this a necessary point of doctrine, only a reasoned speculation based on the Scriptures’ teachings.
An elder in my church said that he was praying on this and had/received the thought “Remember yourself young and strong.” And got the image of a deceased lady in our congregation who died crippled and with replacement knees to suddenly being transform into a beautiful young woman and go dancing up into heaven.
I figure that God wants us whole, with original parts/limbs, and no longer crippled with age and infirmities. And for those who want to know where in the Bible it says that, I don’t know if it does, I figure a merciful God would want us to be at our best in his presence.
I dont really care what my reserected body will be like (although I am sure it will be great), but I would like to know what you do for eternity in heaven.
I have a hard time seeing TV being available in heaven or cell phones, or computers, or video games, political discussion boards, or frankly anything I currently enjoy doing.
To put it in plain old English, our bodies will be exactly like Christ’s glorified body that first Easter Morning when He walked out of that tomb outside Jerusalem.
Like Jesus’.
Next question.
Wonderful things to ponder!
Bruce Jenner is going to be in for a shock.
If many Catholics/Orthodox are to be believed, they will probably look like the chimps who were our “ancestors.”