Why would being in heaven with one’s body, be a good thing?
Read the article...as you might know, I'm arguing against Mary's assumption--as the idea dates from the late 400s, from herertical sources.
However, Heaven, in the biblical sense, is not a place of dreamy clouds, harps, wimpy angels and waif-like spirits.
Heaven is God's presence...and God is ultimate reality--hence it is the most real solid place there is. Enoch and Elijah in the Old Testament are recorded as to having been assumed up into heaven (with their bodies) and of course Jesus, after the resurrection went up to Heaven and is seated on His throne there....STILL in a human body.
Scriptural teaching speaks of the resurrection of the bodies of everyone at Jesus 2nd coming--and how Heaven will come down to earth--and this will be a tangible physical, bodily reality, again, not dreams and clouds.