# How Old Are We in Heaven **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 9, 2009, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532 "2009-01-09T15:59:08Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/21 "2009-01-09T19:21:37Z")
I was taught that we get new “glorified” bodies for whatever that means. For an interesting look into this question you can read Mark Twains “Captain Stormfield’s Visit to Heaven” for free here: > **[Extract from Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven by Mark Twain](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1044)** > > Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by volunteers. Basically guy arrives in heaven, at the wrong gate at first and then gets his wings and harp and plays in the choir for a bit. He gets bored and sort of goes exploring in heaven. He meets up with an old friend who explains to him how heaven works. It is a short (36 pages) and fun read on the subject and is full of Twains humor and wit. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/22 "2009-01-09T19:33:00Z")
In heaven you have the exact same body you died with. It’s great if you died as a twenty year old, but sucks if you died in your nineties. The only way you can get a younger body is if you were really evil when alive, but seek redemption moments before you die. For more information, consult your local Jedi knight. ---
**Author:** ![gigi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a587f6/32.png) [@gigi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gigi)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 8:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/23 "2009-01-09T20:17:45Z")
> [@Prelude\_to\_Fascination](#): > > **Gigi** , that’s familiar too, but it just plain never made sense to me. I guess that’s why it’s faith…😕 The key to me is we will be united with God and nothing (including a body I don’t like here) will bring us any unhappiness, so I won’t worry about the details! And far as the no giving and taking in marriage in heaven, was that part of the response to the Pharisees who were trying to trip Jesus up about whose wife the woman with seven husbands would be in heaven? ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/24 "2009-01-09T21:04:40Z")
> [@Tahssa](#): > > I was taught that we get new “glorified” bodies for whatever that means. Probably based on [1 Corinthians 15:35-57](http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20Corinthians%2015:35-57;&version=31;). > [@](#): > > So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 9:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/25 "2009-01-09T21:14:04Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Since heaven is infinite… Whoops, you lost me right there with an unsuppported statement in your first line. Heaven is whatever you dream it up to be, since it is all fantasy. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/26 "2009-01-09T22:50:28Z")
Really? Can you prove that? Perhaps you are stating your beliefs as established fact. ---
**Author:** ![TroubleAgain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@TroubleAgain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TroubleAgain)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2009, 11:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/27 "2009-01-09T23:46:12Z")
I always imagined our bodies would be like we picture them. You know, in my mind, I may be older and wiser, but my body is still somewhere in its 20’s. ::sigh:: ---
**Author:** ![luv2draw](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/46a35a/32.png) [@luv2draw](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/luv2draw)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/28 "2009-01-10T00:13:21Z")
Maybe we can shape-shift and be whatever age we want to be and the people that we knew who are looking for us will see us the way they remember us. Both parts of that equation would be at odds with each other but it is Heaven after all and anything is possible. Hey, see you guys up there. We’ll recognize each other by our log-in names.😃 ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/29 "2009-01-10T00:40:46Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > Yes, of course, but if there were? What does the Bible say about this? I went to church every Sunday and Wednesday growing up, and I never heard anything about being ageless with no body. What good are all though mansions in heaven that I always heard about? The Bible says nothing and everything about it. Hell (no pun intended), which books are you going to believe? Besides, one person’s heaven is another person’s hell. They can’t intersect. I’m sure I’d like to spend my days surrounded by tons of cash and a swimming pool full of Salma Hayeks, but heaven’s printing press (and the person running it) and Salma Hayek might have something to say about that. Of course, heaven doesn’t exist. That helps for such discussions. ---
**Author:** ![Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e480ec/32.png) [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Least_Original_User_Name_Ever)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/30 "2009-01-10T00:42:06Z")
> [@Malacandra](#): > > I think you forgot to wipe. Nah, religion already provided the turd. It’s a miracle dump. Miracle dumps need no wiping. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Woodhouse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@Miss\_Woodhouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Woodhouse)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/31 "2009-01-10T01:25:27Z")
I’ll be whatever age makes me look like a super model. A girl can dream, can’t she? ---
**Author:** ![G0sp3l](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c68b51/32.png) [@G0sp3l](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/G0sp3l)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/32 "2009-01-10T05:07:29Z")
What about all of the children that die? Do they get magically aged? Or do they spend eternity immature? Hookers, booze and blackjack. And fried food. And Salma Hayek and Monica Bellucci and Halle Berry and … how about everyone here [www.chickipedia.com](http://www.chickipedia.com). Does heaven have an internet connection. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/33 "2009-01-10T06:05:54Z")
Easy. You’re the same age you are in your head. I’m 25 in my head, but 62 out here. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/34 "2009-01-10T14:39:47Z")
> [@Least\_Original\_User\_Name\_Ever](#): > > Nah, religion already provided the turd. It’s a miracle dump. Miracle dumps need no wiping. It took you a minute to shit in this thread. You might want to get that knee checked out.[sup]\*[/sup] Some people manage to stay right out of discussions in which they reject the premise under which the discussion is taking place. - Wow, can I mix metaphors or what? ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 2:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/35 "2009-01-10T14:49:21Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Really? Can you prove that? Perhaps you are stating your beliefs as established fact. Whoops, you’ve got the shoe on the wrong foot and you’re barking up the wrong tree, Bud. I would put a belief in heaven squarely in the extraordinary claims, etc., camp. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 2:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/36 "2009-01-10T14:56:36Z")
My GF’s answer would be : “you’ll be the age you think you are inside, and look like you think you the real you looks like” Me ? Quit dreaming. In the afterlife, you look like maggot poo. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/37 "2009-01-10T20:04:42Z")
Your body is just a case. Dust to dust sort of thing. Matthew says they will be _like the angels_. Since Angels are spiritual beings without a body, that is how you will be. Notice it says LIKE the angels not AN ANGEL. ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/38 "2009-01-10T20:28:39Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Whoops, you’ve got the shoe on the wrong foot and you’re barking up the wrong tree, Bud. I would put a belief in heaven squarely in the extraordinary claims, etc., camp. Hum, so the most widely-held belief is “extraordinary” while yours is quite ordinary? How odd. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/39 "2009-01-10T20:36:22Z")
> [@Paul in Saudi](#): > > Hum, so the most widely-held belief is “extraordinary” while yours is quite ordinary? How odd. So the number of people who believe in something determines how real it is? Yikes! There must really be something to astrology, not to mention the Loch Ness Monster and Bigfoot. And those who say we didn’t go to the moon and 9/11 never happened. It’s all so simple to me now – science is done by counting the votes. If it’s popular, it must be true! ---
**Author:** ![Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ccd318/32.png) [@Paul\_in\_Qatar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Paul_in_Qatar)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2009, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532/40 "2009-01-10T22:55:00Z")
Popularity? Certainly not. But things that are true can be proven true. You state there is no heaven. I invite you to prove it. So you can prove there is no heaven? If not, perhaps you ought to say, “I do not believe there is a heaven.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-old-are-we-in-heaven/480532.md?page=1)