For Christians ... a question I've had for a long time

[robocop (actually)]

For those of you who believe in a physical resurrection, which body do you get? Do you get your aged aching body you died in, or the one where you were at your healthiest, or do you get a free choice, or some other answer?

In my case I believe you get your old body back but you have a different kind of blood that keeps you healthy.

The Raelians believe you get cloned at the age of 15.

 

[Clara Tea]

If someone is loading a wall safe into the wall of a 22 story building, and it falls on the head of a Christian, and flattens the Christian (lets call him shorty), he will not exist in heaven as shorty. It would be hell to retain the same form.

I think that the person could choose his own appearance. Lets hope that others could not choose it for us.

I wonder if others could choose? Lets say that the mother of a three year old dies, then 60 years later the three year old is 63 and dies. When they meet up in heaven, the mother wants to hug her little baby. She might find it strange to hug a 63 year old.

Your question is about those who believe we get physical bodies in heaven, but what if we don't? What if we shun all that is physical. Angels, can't stand thoughts of pee, poop, and sex, since they don't have bodies, and consider that beneath them. They think about spiritual matters (the things that really count). They don't bury themselves in tombs of ancient religion, they live their religion as kind and peaceful beings, and expect no less from us. It is actually painful for angels to talk to humans (which is why they generally don't).

 

[Kenny]

Are we talking about the Judean Christian God?

I just call Him Father. But, as I have said in the past, "In the Christian perspective"

 

[Inquire of God]

For those of you who believe in a physical resurrection, which body do you get? Do you get your aged aching body you died in, or the one where you were at your healthiest, or do you get a free choice, or some other answer?

When the Lord resurrected He retained the marks of His Atoning Sacrifice in His hands, feet and side, yet otherwise appeared perfect.
This may be something that He did so that we could see that the Atonement actually happened as the scriptures so state or this may be His permanent resurrected appearance.
When you and I are resurrected we will have the eternal elements that once composed our bodies returned to us and they will once again be inhabited by our immortal spirits.
Our bodies, however, will be slightly different.
As our spirits are perfect, so shall our bodies be perfect, they shall be an exact match. And will retain the physical capacities we gained in mortality and they will be enhanced greatly.
Our bodies will be immortal and never again subject to any of our current vicissitudes of corruption or decay.
We won't even have to eat or drink, but we likely will.

 

[Kenny]

Jesus's "Heavenly body" still had the wounds that killed him.

That is why I believe it is still a natural body.

He will be the only one that has the scars of life on earth in as much as His body wasn't created from the earth. It was created by the Word of God and the power of the Holy Spirit.

 

[37818]

For those of you who believe in a physical resurrection, which body do you get? Do you get your aged aching body you died in, or the one where you were at your healthiest, or do you get a free choice, or some other answer?

I do not think most Christians have the answer.
It should be noted that Jesus got the body He died in with the hole in His side and the nail prints in His hands.
Now in the New Heaven and Earth the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations, Revelation 22:2, ". . . the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." And those nations are only all the resurrected saved, Revelation 21:27. So why heal immortal resurrected peoples bodies? Jesus' wounds come to mind. But then those might not change, Hebrews 13:8.
So I am of the point of view that any issues with our resurrected bodies (Revelation 20:4, such as the beheaded) will be fixed by the leaves of the tree of life.

 

[Dave Watchman]

For those of you who believe in a physical resurrection, which body do you get? Do you get your aged aching body you died in, or the one where you were at your healthiest, or do you get a free choice, or some other answer?

Well since you've had the question for a long time,

I pick this post as the winner of the internet:

Assuming you mean the resurrection of the just. It will be a glorified body equal to the bodies of angels. (Matthew 22:30)

A good description is probably like the angel in Daniel 10:6 or even Jesus own description in Revelation 1:12-16.

Different people will probably shine with varying degrees of brightness like stars. (Daniel 12:3) I imagine no one will outshine Jesus Christ.

And this one too:

Instead, they will be like the angels in heaven.

We're going to be like that character Q from Star Trek, or like Superman when he orbited around the earth so fast and went back in time to save Lois Lane.

I might go back to get my cat instead.

We are going to be able to be both physical, and then change into a form that can shoot through the sky.

Like Gabriel traveling in swift flight on his way to visit Daniel.

And when he gets there, Daniel describes him as:

"while I was still in prayer, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.​

And like how when Jesus spent the 40 days here after His resurrection, He could eat, people could touch Him, He would seem to appear and not always be recognized. And then ascended into a cloud that took Him away.

John said we do not yet know what we will be

"Beloved, now we are children of God; and it has not yet been revealed what we shall be, but we know that when He is revealed, we shall be like Him, for we shall see Him as He is.​

And that's like the Script posted from Matthew, they will be like the angels in heaven

And so putting together other examples, like when the demons were cast out in Matthew 8, they would find it preferable to be put into a herd of physical pigs, than to be sent out as disembodied spirits floating around.

New Jerusalem is described as a physical place, streets of gold, gates of pearl and walls of precious stone.

God made the physical universe so that He could interact with His creation.

I think we'll have bodies better than superman.

We can shine like white raiment, some like the stars of heaven, then re-materialize and sail a wooden boat, or pet a cat and ride a horse.

"What no eye has seen, and no ear has heard, and has not entered into heart of man, what God has prepared for those who love Him."
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So it should be WAY better than what I can imagine here now.

 

[Thief]

For those of you who believe in a physical resurrection, which body do you get? Do you get your aged aching body you died in, or the one where you were at your healthiest, or do you get a free choice, or some other answer?

I suspect......you get what you deserve

which may be an argument for reincarnation ......in lesser forms

 

[Vinayaka]

I do not think most Christians have the answer.
It should be noted that Jesus got the body He died in with the hole in His side and the nail prints in His hands.
Now in the New Heaven and Earth the leaves of the tree of life are for the healing of the nations, Revelation 22:2, ". . . the leaves of the tree were for the healing of the nations." And those nations are only all the resurrected saved, Revelation 21:27. So why heal immortal resurrected peoples bodies? Jesus' wounds come to mind. But then those might not change, Hebrews 13:8.
So I am of the point of view that any issues with our resurrected bodies (Revelation 20:4, such as the beheaded) will be fixed by the leaves of the tree of life.

Certainly I've gotten a variety of answers here.

 

[74x12]

gee what makes you think the separating is not happening right now ?

What evidence do you have for that ...

 

[37818]

Certainly I've gotten a variety of answers here.

1 John 3:2, ". . . when he shall appear, we shall be like him; . . ."
Philippians 3:20-21, ". . . we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, . . ."
Romans 8:23, ". . . waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body."

 

[cataway]

peoples coming out of the so-called pagan/Christion religions . to join in to the growth of the true Christion congregation

What evidence do you have for that ...

peoples coming out of the so-called pagan/Christion religions . to join in to the growth of the true Christion congregation .

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

My understanding is that you get a new body that looks like the one you have but fully spiritual and without the effects of aging or the consequences of the cursed ground.

Without the effects of aging?
So it's your body you had at birth?
You're like a new-born baby?

 

[TagliatelliMonster]

I agree, not immortal.
But, a fleshly ie., physical person could live forever.
Even now, our bodies ( healthy ones ) renew their cellular makeup ie., atoms about every 7 years. Unfortunately, we age & lose that ability. Now, anyways. There's no reason that God couldn't make that permanent, as was His purpose w/ Adam & Eve. Their rebellion -- and the resulting issues it raised --messed that up, but it didn't change His purpose.... only postponed it.

So you're saying that a couple thousand years ago, there was no entropy? :-S

Jesus' ransom sacrifice makes God's original aim for humans, possible.

How?

 

[Vinayaka]

I'd like to thank everyone for your answers. This satisfied my curiousity.

 

[nPeace]

For those of you who believe in a physical resurrection, which body do you get? Do you get your aged aching body you died in, or the one where you were at your healthiest, or do you get a free choice, or some other answer?

God gives it a body just as it has pleased him, and gives to each of the seeds its own body.  Not all flesh is the same flesh, but there is one of mankind, there is another flesh of cattle, another flesh of birds, and another of fish.  And there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly bodies is one sort, and that of the earthly bodies is a different sort. (1 Corinthians 15:38-40)

According to scripture....
It's a new body, but each person receives a body according to what God pleases God to give them. There are bodies of flesh, and there are bodies of spirit. It depend on where the body will dwell.
Persons that live in heaven recieve a spirit body.
Persons that live on earth receive a physical body.

Will people live on earth after they have died?
The righteous will possess the earth, And they will live forever on it. (Psalm 37:29)
For only the upright will reside in the earth, And the blameless will remain in it. As for the wicked, they will be cut off from the earth, And the treacherous will be torn away from it. (Proverbs 2:21, 22)
But the meek will possess the earth, And they will find exquisite delight in the abundance of peace. (Psalm 37:11)
Isaiah 45:18 The reason God made the earth was for it to be inhabited - not for a few years, or millennia, but forever. - Psalm 78:69 ; Psalm 104:5 ... with only righteous people.
(Ephesians 1:10) . . .to gather all things together in the Christ, the things in the heavens and the things on the earth. . . .

God says he is making all things new (Revelation 21:5), and the former things will not come to mind (Isaiah 65:17). No one will say, "I am sick." (Isaiah 33:24) There will be no lame person, no blind person, no deaf... (Isaiah 35:5, 6) and no one will die of old age (Isaiah 65:20). The cells will continue being renewed, as Job's was (Job 33:25 ; 2 Kings 5:14)... for ever.

 

[nPeace]

I'd like to thank everyone for your answers. This satisfied my curiousity.

I'm late, but glad to hear.
Was it accurate though, or made sense? Just curious.

 

[nPeace]

It cannot be physical and immortal because all physical bodies are subject to decomposition.

Yes, you are right. Physical bodies are immortal, and subject to decay... So is the earth - subject to deteriorating. Can God sustain or preserve, and renew both, thus preventing decay?

 

[Vinayaka]

I'm late, but glad to hear.
Was it accurate though, or made sense? Just curious.

I have to assume it was accurate, although there some variety. What I learned was that there is variety on it, but generally the feeling is you get a healthy body with no pain. It made sense in the sense that I discovered what Christians believe on a topic. It clearly makes sense from that world view.

Of course the topic itself makes no sense to me personally, as I'm not a Christian, and was just posing the question out of curiousity and nothing else. No hidden motives here.

 

[nPeace]

In Scripture all the resurrections that Jesus performed were: healthy physical resurrections.
It would seem that an aged body would be healthy in a younger version of that person but still be able to recognize that person.
One person said to me (he lived to be 100 years old) that he would simply pin on a picture of his younger self if he came back aged !

Ha Ha. Funny guy, that fellow.
Good point you made. When Lazarus was resurrected, he did not walk around with a decomposing body, which was in the tomb. So clearly he had a new body.