A Theory Concerning ...

[MichaelFilo]

Jesus says, that it is better to come into the kingdom of God without a hand, than it is to be completely cast into hell.

This passage would seem to show that when our bodies are glorified, and are reuinted with our souls, they will not be necessarily complete(Caution: Speculative theology ahead) This would seem to mean that if you lost your arm, it will never be given back to you. however, people who have their bodies creamated, would also have ashes for a body. Those who were never buried, would have dust (from dust to dust) for a body. However, all these will be glorified. I can be totally wrong, but any thoughts/comments?

God bless,

Mikey

[Aloysius]

[quote]. I can be totally wrong,[/quote]

i think you are... hehe

Jesus was speaking in hyperbole to illustrate a point, i don't think He meant anything more than that.

God can rebuild us, He has the technology.

at least IMHO.

[Apotheoun]

[quote name='MichaelFilo' date='Aug 29 2004, 10:51 AM'] Jesus says, that it is better to come into the kingdom of God without a hand, than it is to be completely cast into hell.

This passage would seem to show that when our bodies are glorified, and are reuinted with our souls, they will not be necessarily complete(Caution: Speculative theology ahead) This would seem to mean that if you lost your arm, it will never be given back to you. however, people who have their bodies creamated, would also have ashes for a body. Those who were never buried, would have dust (from dust to dust) for a body. However, all these will be glorified. I can be totally wrong, but any thoughts/comments?

God bless,

Mikey [/quote]
The resurrection body will be the same one you have now, for it will be reconstitued and perfected by the uncreated glory of God which energizes it to eternal life. So, it will be physical and yet it will not be bound by the physical laws of nature, because it will be perfectly controlled by the Spirit of God indwelling those who have been deified by His uncreated grace. Now, it is a pious belief that anyone who has been martyred for the faith will bear for all eternity the marks of his own passion, just as the Lord forever bears the marks of His Passon upon the Cross, for as St. Augustine said, ". . . the love we bear to the blessed martyrs causes us, I know not how, to desire to see in the heavenly kingdom the marks of the wounds which they received for the name of Christ, and possibly we shall see them. For this will not be a deformity, but a mark of honor, and will add lustre to their appearance, and a spiritual, if not a bodily beauty. And yet we need not believe that they to whom it has been said, 'Not a hair of your head shall perish,' shall, in the resurrection, want such of their members as they have been deprived of in their martyrdom. But if it will be seemly in that new kingdom to have some marks of these wounds still visible in that immortal flesh, the places where they have been wounded or mutilated shall retain the scars without any of the members being lost. While, therefore, it is quite true that no blemishes which the body has sustained shall appear in the resurrection, yet we are not to reckon or name these marks of virtue blemishes." [St. Augustine, [u]City of God[/u], Book XXII, Chapter 19]