Resurrection of the body?

[MattEZ]

Hey, so we often talk about the resurrection of the body, but what does that actually mean? Is it our actual bodies that get resurrected (like Jesus’s, who still have his holes from the cross)? If that is the case, what about people who lost their legs, people who went through gender surgery, people who were cremated, etc? Or does the resurrection of the body refer to something else?

Cheers

 

[Vico]

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Modern Catholic Dictionary on Resurrection of the Body

The universal return to life of all human beings, to occur soon before the last judgment by God’s almighty power. Each individual soul will be reunited with the selfsame body with which it was united on earth. While all the dead will rise, only the just will have their bodies glorified.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

999 How? Christ is raised with his own body: “See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself”;553 but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, “all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear,” but Christ “will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body,” into a “spiritual body”:554

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel. . . . What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable. . . . The dead will be raised imperishable. . . . For this perishable nature must put on the imperishable, and this mortal nature must put on immortality.555

 

[Seagull]

I once had this vision - of one of my relatives -
He was a handsome football quarterback in high school - from a wealthy family too -
He got injured - permentantly - barely able to function -
Decades - of such living -
Met him a few times, we got along well -

But, I remember this dream I had of him -
He was restored -
And was he ever happy and handsome, like a prince !
And he thanked me and thanked me, for being a good pal.

Other believers, I suppose, just want to see themselves with hair,
or not fat, or young as a teenager
It’s fun to consider -

But I get the sense it’s to our final judgement - first and foremost.

 

[joseie]

Pl.go through the following link in which the characteristics of the resurrected body is explained beautifully and in detail quoting the relevant verses.
In short,it will be like the tree growing up from the seed and will keep the basic characteristics of the original body,but being glorified free from any defects and incapable of destruction or death.It will recognizable individually, wil have the same gender and racial blend.However we are not given the minute detail except that the heavenly life will be so blissful which ‘the eye has not seen,ear has not heard and the mind has not experienced’

https://www.google.co.in/url?url=ht...racteristics&usg=AOvVaw0Fn8JFsUz1AypwlTbjHv2C

 

[Hereiam]

body 2.0 or body at time of death…a theological conundrum…

Christ, when showing his glorified body, presented the wounds from his time of death (pierced hands, feet, side)…

So, if we are maimed at time of death, will our glorified bodies have the same disfigurements?

What of embryos growing in the mother’s body at the return of Christ…their glorified bodies the bodies of an embryo or a fully adult body? If fully adult, do children who die receive a projected adult body or the body they had when they died?

More importantly, does it make a difference?

Talk among yourself!

Pax et bonum!

 

[BlackFriar]

Your issue seems to be with the additional gift of impassibility and perhaps glorification which gives the soul complete control over the body re its form etc.

 

[bobperk]

There are many possibilities to speculate…injured bodies, bodies that were burned to ashes, bodies at the bottom of the sea, conjoined twins, babies, etc. Some speculative theories posit that our resurrected age will be around 30. And I hope that is the case, because I’m not sure if babies passing through walls would be heavenly or nightmarish. Especially if they could also talk.

 

[steido01]

Ezekiel 37 has always been a favorite of mine with regard to the Resurrection. Dust and dry bones re-formed into new life.

 

[Gorgias]

Aquinas suggests that our bodies will be made perfect.

Why did Jesus retain His wounds? Perhaps as a reminder that it was through those wounds that we are saved. Clearly, those wounds don’t ‘hurt’ Him in His glorified body. But, as ‘scars’ of a sort, they give witness to us.

Our imperfections would only give witness to weakness, so (IMHO), we will not have them in the eschaton.

 

[Kei]

Glorified bodies.