Posted on 04/23/2015 10:13:03 AM PDT by Salvation
So sorry that some of you could not post on the previous thread.
Here you go!
Monsignor Pope Ping!
Like nothing we could ever possibly imagine.
TLDR, but I’ve always felt that we’ll be children in heaven. I have no scripture to back it up, but I’ve read where we’ll recognize our spouses, but not have the same attraction to them, or to anyone for that matter. Personally, I think that it would be pretty cool to be a kid again with that sense of awe and wonder towards our Lord that many times is lost as we become adults.
From the article:
**What about age? Our bodies will be youthful and will retain our original sex. Note that “youthful” does not necessarily mean between 18 and 22! In the Philippians text that began this post, Paul says that our glorified bodies will be conformed to Christ’s glorified body. When Jesus’ body rose, He was approximately 33 years old. Elsewhere, St. Paul exhorts Christians to persevere: Until we all meet into the unity of faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the age of the fulness of Christ (Eph 4:13). Hence it would seem that Christ’s resurrected body is the “perfect” age.**
So I have always believed that we would be around Christ’s resurrected age.
True.
From my understanding of the Bible - we’ll have a body that pleases G-d.
[[we’ll recognize our spouses, but not have the same attraction to them,]]
I’ve also read that we won’t remember our loved ones back on earth because ‘there will be no sorrow in heaven’ and it would be sorrowful for someone in heaven to know their loved one will go to hell.
Dunno if that’s true or not
[[Note that “youthful” does not necessarily mean between 18 and 22!]]
Everything is relative
Methusula was still ‘youthful’ at about 850 years old
Perfect in Holy Spirit................................
Jesus said there is no marriage in Heaven.
That why they call it ‘Heaven’........................
33 - 34 is a great age!......................27 years ago when I was...................
There are different types of "attraction" and loves. I think we will love our spouse on a deeper level of appreciation. There will be no sexual urges as that is hormone driven and our body chemistry will be changed. We will have complete control over our emotions (what a change THAT will be!). Time or space will not be a constraint anymore.
At a bare minimum I HOPE all my bones will be whole and the steel plates, screws and pins will be gone.
Oh, and I wouldn’t mind being cured of my sinus issues and allergies either...
;-)
[[That why they call it ‘Heaven’........................]]
Oh my goodness that’s funny- True bliss at last lol
Joshua 14: 10“Now then, just as the Lord promised, he has kept me alive for forty-five years since the time he said this to Moses, while Israel moved about in the wilderness. So here I am today, eighty-five years old! 11I am still as strong today as the day Moses sent me out; I’m just as vigorous to go out to battle now as I was then. 12Now give me this hill country that the Lord promised me that day. You yourself heard then that the Anakites were there and their cities were large and fortified, but, the Lord helping me, I will drive them out just as he said.” 13Then Joshua blessed Caleb son of Jephunneh and gave him Hebron as his inheritance.
Paraphrased:
Yeah, I'm 85 years old!
Now give me the hill country so I can kick some Anakite a--!
Two thoughts. First, Jesus said that in the resurrection there would be no marrying or giving in marriage, that we would be like the angels in heaven (Matt.22:30), though to be more accurate this would be because everyone will already be married, in the sense that they will all be the Bride of Christ, married as a unit to Him. How sex is handled, of course, is anyone’s guess.
Second, I once speculated, in a talk I gave a few years ago, that God is outside of the constraints of space and time—which we know is true, that humans on earth are inside the constraints of space and time—which we also know is true—but that angels are outside the constraints of space but inside the constraints of time: they can instantaneously be wherever God needs them to be, but while they can see the future, they cannot be in the future until the future becomes the present.
The purpose of the speculation was an attempt to understand why Satan had it in for us. Lucifer could see what was coming, that God was going to create human beings and destine them to rule over the angels (I Cor. 6:3). Lucifer (”light-bearer,” the presenter of God’s glory) did not want to be supervised by a being created after him, much as we become jealous when a younger person at our work is promoted over us. So Lucifer first tries to overthrow God, gets 1/3 of the angels on his side, and loses. Then he tries to separate humans and God in the Garden and succeeds, but God, instead of letting Satan back into his old job, curses the serpent by, among other things, setting up a plan of redemption—which Satan tries to thwart at every step, from Cain killing Abel all the way to Christ on the cross.
When that doesn’t work—when Jesus is raised from the dead in spite of all of Satan’s efforts to keep His resurrection from occurring—all Satan has left is to try to get as few humans redeemed as possible, and to make the lives of the redeemed so miserable that it will deter others from accepting redemption. But Satan can see what’s coming, though he keeps lying to himself that he can somehow stop it from happening, if only he tries just a little harder. Our resurrection is the ultimate promotion, where we obtain our foreordained position of being second to God, and ruler over angels. Needless to say, I don’t make of this a necessary point of doctrine, only a reasoned speculation based on the Scriptures’ teachings.
Everything will be perfect.
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