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:
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.
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.
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?
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::
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.
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.
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. Does heaven have an internet connection.
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.
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.
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!
