Resurrection of the body, older or younger

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“I believe in the Resurrection of the body”. When our body is resurrected, what age will the body assume? Will it be a body 25 years old or would it be the body of a 95 year old person. Hollywood stars would probably like to be resurrected at a younger age, say for example, Lauren Bacall, Doris Day or Dean Martin who looked great when they were young, but not so much toward the end of life. However, suppose a person died as a child, will he be resurrected in the body of a child? And what about your brain and its memories. Will you have the brain and memories of a 95 year old man, or of a 25 year old?
 
I would guess no particular age, and any age at all. Our bodies will be glorified. Recall how the resurrected Jesus was sometimes not recognized, and then later recognized, and also how he could enter the locked room. While we will have real, physical, biological bodies, biology is going to work differently than it does now.

I expect we will have perfect memories of our earthly life – a worrisome prospect, is it not? – but with such knowledge and understanding that we will be at perfect peace with the bad and good moments alike.
 
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po18guy said:
It has been postulated that we will be the Lord’s age of 33.
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That is problematic because some people die at a very young age, as we read about the tragic shootings at elementary schools. Further, suppose a 95 year old died and is resurrected as 33 years old. Then presumably his whole body, including the brain, will be 33 years old. But at 95 he has many more memories than he had at 33. Will all of his memories later on in life be wiped out because now he has his brain as it was when he was 33 years old.
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I’m dying to find out.
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Yes, because if the 95 year old man has all of his memories, then he can’t have his body, which includes his brain, at 33 years old. The brain of a 95 year old when he was 33 years old will not contain the information and the memories his brain had experienced in his older years.
 
I’m pretty sure all memories would remain in tact. Including memories of what the bodiless soul experienced between death and the bodily resurrection.
 
This actually has some logic to it. Scripture says we don’t know what our bodies will be like, but “we’ll be like Him”. From that, it’s reasonable to presume we will have a glorified body akin to Christ on the first Easter.

I John 3:2
 
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I’m pretty sure all memories would remain in tact.
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But would the aborted or miscarried fetus have any memories of an abortion or miscarriage? If the fetus is resurrected to age 33, he would have no memories from the time of the abortion or miscarriage to 33 years later?
 
This is what I’m thinking—a zygote who dies after only one or two cell divisions, would that be their glorified body?

Not that there’s anything wrong with that 🙂. We are all beautiful in our own way.
 
AlNg said:
Will all of his memories later on in life be wiped out because now he has his brain as it was when he was 33 years old.
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You are making assumptions that are not warranted.
The hypothesis is a glorified body and the qualities it may have.

One cannot take the qualities of a glorified body and assume any limitations of our corrupt selves.
 
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That is problematic because some people die at a very young age, as we read about the tragic shootings at elementary schools. Further, suppose a 95 year old died and is resurrected as 33 years old. Then presumably his whole body, including the brain, will be 33 years old. But at 95 he has many more memories than he had at 33. Will all of his memories later on in life be wiped out because now he has his brain as it was when he was 33 years old.
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  1. It has been further postulated, and reported in some unapproved private revelations, that children who die at young ages or even in the womb “grow up” in Heaven.
  2. There is no reason to think that when God restores an elderly person’s body to health, they somehow get their brain wiped of memories. I have no idea why you’d even jump to that conclusion. God is outside of time and doesn’t need to “turn back the clock” to perfect and restore someone’s body.
Ultimately however this is all just speculation and I am quite happy to leave the process up to God.
 
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But would the aborted or miscarried fetus have any memories of an abortion or miscarriage? If the fetus is resurrected to age 33, he would have no memories from the time of the abortion or miscarriage to 33 years later?
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Again, you’re acting like God is somehow restrained by how memory works on Earth. If God thinks it’s useful for an aborted baby in Heaven to have such memories, he will give them such memories. If not, he won’t.
 
As long as I get new knees (and hair maybe? (Not for vain reasons (mostly) - that way I won’t get a scalp sunburn)) I’m good to go.
 
Many people say that glorified bodies will be in young adulthood.
 
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My own 2 cents.

We will have complete control over our bodies.
They will appear whatever age we want them to appear as.
 
I think the topics already been answered, but Saint Thomas Aquinas also agreed that we’d be resurrected in our prime (age 30 or so). Our growing up is directed towards this peak form of our nature, and aging is, in a bodily sense, a corruption away from that peak nature. This doesn’t have a moral impact or deny the wisdom that the elderly develop.
 
Used think about this too…
In most apparitions, the BVM appears as a young teenage lady. Could it be because she was a young teenage lady when she said ‘Yes’ to God?
Abba Antony of the desert recounted a vision he witnessed of demons seeking to accuse him to Christ. The Lord permitted them to do so but they were only allowed to accuse Antony of his faults since he became a monk - they were not allowed to recount what he did before that.

Those two instances make me think that we will be resurrected as we were when we first said a meaningful ‘yes’ to God…whether it be 12-100.
 
Wouldn’t the new earth be timeless? And therefore, wouldn’t we be ageless? In the glorified condition, nobody would age anymore. We would be eternal. I picture us being forever young, but there’s no way to know what that would be. It’s a good question, though. Guess those of us who make it will find out.
 
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I’m no theologian, but doesn’t it say somewhere “new” and glorified bodies? Maybe we’ll look nothing like what we think? That might be kinda cool - “Introducing, the new and improved human beings!” God knows best, so I’m sure He’ll pick whatever is most appropriate. But if it’s my old body, I’m gonna say, “God, what year was I at my peak of physical condition?” I was a bodybuilder for 15 years before I messed my shoulder up (nothing lasts forever, LOL). These dang bodies wear out too fast. I’m almost ready to trade mine in.
 
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