What is revealed of our future bodies??
These bodies are but seeds of what is to come. An acorn doesn’t simply produce an acorn but an oak tree…something of vastly greater proportion. Nature itself reveals there are different kinds of bodies…so it shouldn’t surprise us at all that there will be a great distinction between our earthly bodies and our eternal bodies. Just as we have born the likeness of the earthly man so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven JESUS. Our future bodies in the new heaven and earth will be like his. And what do we know of the resurrected Christ? · Thomas could place his hand in his side. (John 20:27) He ate bread. (Luke 24:42-43) He will return as he left. (Acts 1:11) Our bodies will be unrestricted…but not unrelated to bodies as we now perceive them. They will be the completion of all we were meant to be. Our bodies will be free from all that is fallen…fragile…and frustrating! C.S. Lewis – “These small and perishable bodies we now have were given to us as ponies are given to schoolboys
