Temporary bodies in Heaven

[Mgray82]

Since we will not have physical bodies until the resurrection, is it possible that God could give us a temporary body in Heaven? If not, why?

 

[delphin]

My Mom said it best in that we won’t need out bodies anymore. We’ll be with God and thus pure light!

 

[Latinitas]

Since we will not have physical bodies until the resurrection, is it possible that God could give us a temporary body in Heaven? If not, why?

God will not give us a “temporary body” while in heaven, because, contrary to the Cartesian notion that the body and soul are two seperate and disparate things, we only have one body, the one we’re in, and when we die, our bodies are buried (hopefully), and disintegrate into dust (cf. Gen. 3:19). On the Last Day, the Day of Judgment, God will resurrect our bodies, the bodies we have now, and perfect them, making them incabable of death or destruction, and, for the just, glorify them, and for the wicked, seal them with the mark of reprobation.

My Mom said it best in that we won’t need out bodies anymore. We’ll be with God and thus pure light!

We will have our bodies in heaven eventually - a man without a body is not a man. But for the intermittent state, the soul, which was justified and cleansed of original sin (and perhaps actual sin) in baptism, was nourished in the Eucharist, restored by Penance etc., was fully redeemed at the passing of this life (or will be soon enough in Purgatory), whereas the body is yet to see the fruits of that Redemption, hence our bodies still decay.

Benedicat Deus,
Latinitas

 

[JoyintheCross]

God will not give us a “temporary body” while in heaven, because, contrary to the Cartesian notion that the body and soul are two seperate and disparate things, we only have one body, the one we’re in, and when we die, our bodies are buried (hopefully), and disintegrate into dust (cf. Gen. 3:19). On the Last Day, the Day of Judgment, God will resurrect our bodies, the bodies we have now, and perfect them, making them incabable of death or destruction, and, for the just, glorify them, and for the wicked, seal them with the mark of reprobation.

We will have our bodies in heaven eventually - a man without a body is not a man. But for the intermittent state, the soul, which was justified and cleansed of original sin (and perhaps actual sin) in baptism, was nourished in the Eucharist, restored by Penance etc., was fully redeemed at the passing of this life (or will be soon enough in Purgatory), whereas the body is yet to see the fruits of that Redemption, hence our bodies still decay.

Benedicat Deus,
Latinitas

Yeah, true. We are not angels, but human beings. Hence one of the reasons God means for us to be reunited with our bodies.