The resurrection of the body and my fear of God

[chaunceygardner]

Not me. No, no, 10 E12 times, no!!!

I want to see our LORD; for that, I will need my eyes.

I want to embrace HIM, for that, I need my arms.

I want to converse with HIM, for that, I need my voice, and my hearing.

I want to FEEL HIS touch and be embraced by HIM and breathe with HIM. For that I need my skin, my form, my BODY.

I want to know HIM. For that, I will still need my head.

You can look forward to being a bodiless wisp of nothing, formless, unseeing and unknowing, if you choose. Such a prospect is totally hideous for me. The bodily Resurrection is what makes life–everlasting desirable.

ICXC NIKA.

You will do all those things without a physical body; the soul is all that is required. The prospect of not having a body is “totally hideous” to you; but the prospect of lugging along our body, in whatever form it takes, makes no sense whatsoever to me. I think you will be quite happy to be free of it.

You want to be able to touch, see, hear and speak to God. Why do you think you will need physical senses to do this? Don’t you think we will be able to communicate with and sense God without a mouth, ears, eyes, and arms? Don’t you think we can already? Why do you insist on placing earthly limitations on heaven?

 

[The_Reginator]

You will do all those things without a physical body; the soul is all that is required. The prospect of not having a body is “totally hideous” to you; but the prospect of lugging along our body, in whatever form it takes, makes no sense whatsoever to me. I think you will be quite happy to be free of it.

You want to be able to touch, see, hear and speak to God. Why do you think you will need physical senses to do this? Don’t you think we will be able to communicate with and sense God without a mouth, ears, eyes, and arms? Don’t you think we can already? Why do you insist on placing earthly limitations on heaven?

If we are not to have a resurrected body then why did our Lord decide that He would have one Himself?
Jesus is more than pure spirit. The second person of the Holy Trinity has his resurrected body – the very one that ascended into heaven!

For hundreds and hundreds of years all Christians have proclaimed their belief in the resurrection of the body. The idea that we will be pure spirit is an idea to be found in many eastern, non-Christian religions. It is a non-Christian idea.

 

[GEddie]

You will do all those things without a physical body; the soul is all that is required. The prospect of not having a body is “totally hideous” to you; but the prospect of lugging along our body, in whatever form it takes, makes no sense whatsoever to me. I think you will be quite happy to be free of it.

I very much doubt that.

Would you be “happy” to be bound, blindfolded and nose-plugged indefinitely?

Why do you think a “soul” alone would have the propensities that clearly require soul AND body? The “soul” keeps the body alive, but it is the BODY that does the seeing, touching and experiencing of life.

What do you have against your body that you want to lose it; what about sight, smell, touch, voice, form and movement is unattractive to you?

You want to be able to touch, see, hear and speak to God. Why do you think you will need physical senses to do this? Don’t you think we will be able to communicate with and sense God without a mouth, ears, eyes, and arms? Don’t you think we can already?

A silent, unseeing “contemplative” situation is not at all the same as seeing, touching, conversing. Saint Thomas knew the difference, when he TOUCHED our LORD’s risen BODY and used the HANDS of his own BODY to do so. Human experience is not just thought (which you still need your head to do); it is movement, touch, sight, smell, etc.

Right now we “walk by faith and not by sight.” Don’t you want to get the SIGHT too one day?

Why do you insist on placing earthly limitations on heaven?

Our natural bodies are earthly. But embodiedness is not per se earthly, it is human, there are “bodies terrestrial, and bodies celestial” (1 Co 15)

The example of our LORD shows that our future is not to reduce to a spirit but to become a “body celestial.”

ICXC NIKA

 

[gavanhe]

Imagine the extremes. A little baby who dies and then consider a very old person who dies both with deformities in neither case would you expect to be resurrected in the same form as you passed away. Our Lord in His wisdom will happily surprise us. I should think that we all will be resurrected with an ideal body recognisable to each other.
Gerry

 

[fhansen]

In our faith, the physical and spiritual parallel each other. Both the body and the soul are sick and in need of healing. And God will take care of both.

 

[Bill_Cherry]

Imagine the extremes. A little baby who dies and then consider a very old person who dies both with deformities in neither case would you expect to be resurrected in the same form as you passed away. Our Lord in His wisdom will happily surprise us. I should think that we all will be resurrected with an ideal body recognisable to each other.
Gerry

Beautiful…