HI James,
I’ve supposed that when we rise we will be as perfect as Our Creator had originally intended us to be. Any detraction from that divine intention will have occurred as result of evil – moral evil or physical evil. With the banishment of all evil we’ll be supernaturally perfect. Seems entirely logical but I haven’t the faintest idea what such a blissful state of affairs might actually look like.
A thought that occurs to me is that Christ ascended physically into heaven. According to the Nicene Creed He sits at the right hand of the Father. I recall, too, that the first martyr, Saint Stephen, declared just before he was murdered that he saw Jesus standing at the right hand of God. So I’ve imagined that Saint Stephen’s physical body would have become inert as he died a physical death but somehow at that very same moment he would have been welcomed into paradise by Christ Himself who had just stood up to receive him. I don’t know how such a thing is possible. Bilocation, maybe? Some believe that it worked for Padre Pio. With God all things are possible.
Another thought that comes to me is that at the Transfiguration, Christ’s face shone like the sun and his clothes became as white as the light. Evidently Moses and Elijah were physically present on the mountain and they were able to talk. I guess they were wearing clothes? Will we be wearing clothes in heaven? Elijah was taken up to heaven within a whirlwind in a chariot of fire by horses of fire but Moses died a physical death and was buried in the ground. So how was it that Moses appeared at the Transfiguration with a physical body talking with Christ when Moses had died at least a thousand years earlier and had been buried in the ground at Moab – although I have sometimes wondered how come the location of Moses’ grave faded from the collective Jewish memory. And that thought takes me on to wondering how Moses and Elijah were even identified at the Transfiguration. Did either or both have some physical characteristics that made it obvious who they were? After all, Peter, James, and John could have had no clue as to what Moses or Elijah actually looked like. It seems unlikely that they would have been wearing nametags so I guess Christ told the inner three afterward as they descended the mountain?
In conclusion, then, I’ve absolutely no idea where I’m going with these trains of thought since I’ve pretty much no idea what I’m talking about.
Peace,
Mick
And don’t forget that we can only comprehend God in mere human terms. He is so much more than that. This is my view, or take, on how I view God.
