Account: "What Will Our Resurrected Bodies Be Like."

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Interesting read.

But why do we even need bodies that look like the ones we have now? That’s one thing I just don’t get. Jesus seemed to do OK without a “Body” that “looked like us” until such time as the Incarnation.

I know the Church allows cremation, but then those ashes can’t be “scattered” for example. I’ve often wondered how the scattering itself would “challenge God” any more than having been cremated in the first place.

The part about the alcoholic and transgendered sounds good, too. But that raises the question why Jesus’s Body still has the wounds from the crucifixion, when Thomas inspects them. It seems kind of selective that some of our injuries would be healed or even “not done in the first place” given we are seeds. I’m pleased that the author actually addressed these things.

I’m also pleased that the author said right up front that this is speculation. I think it’s fascinating to think about these things, but presumptuous if not dangerous to believe we actually “know” anything.

1 Cor 8:2 If anyone supposes he knows something, he does not yet know as he ought to know.

Thank you for posting this!

MS
 
If I make it to Heaven then frankly speaking I will not care at all what my resurrected body will be like.
 
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NATURE OF THE RISEN BODY
The body that will be reunited to the soul at the Resurrection will be identical with the one inhabited by the soul on earth.
  1. PROOF FROM REVELATION.—The Eleventh Council of Toledo says: “We believe that we shall arise, clothed not in air or some other flesh, but in the self-same [flesh] in which we [now] live, exist, and move.” The so-called Creed of Leo IX, which is still employed in the consecration rite of bishops, contains this passage: “I believe also in the true resurrection of the same flesh which I now have.” The Fourth Council of the Lateran defines: “All men will rise again with their own bodies [the same] which they now have.”
    a) The Biblical argument for this dogma is based on the same texts that prove the Resurrection, especially the vision of Ezechiel and the passage from Job which we have quoted above.
Where Sacred Scripture does not expressly assert the identity of the risen body with that inhabited by the soul before death, it takes this identity for granted. For a man to rise again in a strange body would not be a true resurrection. “We cannot speak of a resurrection,” says St. Thomas, “unless the soul returns to the same body, because resurrection signifies a new rising. To rise and to fall belong to the same subject, … and hence, if the soul did not resume the same body, there would be no resurrection, but rather the assumption of a new body.” St. Paul writes: “For this corruptible [body] must needs put on incorruption, and this mortal [body] immortality.” Consequently, it is one and the same body which, having been corruptible and mortal in this life, becomes incorruptible and immortal after the Resurrection.

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