Body / Soul Connection - Why does the body need to be resurrected?

[Cristiano]

Originally Posted by vera dicere

If we get a new body will that body be better than the one we have now? What about a really fit and healthy person? Will their new body be as their old one? What if someone has a deformity, or Downs Syndrome? Will they get a body that is not afflicted with those things? What about a fat person? Will they get a slender body?

Shallow questions, perhaps, but its interesting to contemplate on the nature of the "perfect" post judgement body.

You are not going to get a new different body, your body will become glorified because God is going to share is divinity with you. When that happens your body is going to be subject to your will that is perfectly aligned with God's will. God's will is for you to be a human being free from disorders thus you can guess what the final answer is.

[GEddie]

Originally Posted by vera dicere

If we get a new body will that body be better than the one we have now? What about a really fit and healthy person? Will their new body be as their old one? What if someone has a deformity, or Downs Syndrome? Will they get a body that is not afflicted with those things? What about a fat person? Will they get a slender body?

Shallow questions, perhaps, but its interesting to contemplate on the nature of the "perfect" post judgement body.

The pneumatikon soma is not kept alive the same way that ours is (through internal organs, etc) but receives everlasting life. So fit and hiealthy don't mean the same in our "spiritual body" that they do now.

Deformities and defects, both external-bodied and internal or genetic (Down) will be corrected.

As to weight: well, there's weight and there's weight. No doubt there will be endomorphic human bodies in Heaven, if their owner was endomorphic in human life; not everybody will be "slender". But if someone's bodymass limited them living their life, that too will be corrected.

ICXC NIKA

[levinas12]

Originally Posted by vera dicere

... what about embryos stuck in IVF labs? Or aborted foetuses?

I would think that, in these cases, the resurrected body would a developed body - although not necessarily 33 years old!

Without a developed body, personal disclosure would seem to be impeded. But, without disclosure, how could a person unite with other persons (human and divine) in the loving community of persons which we know as Heaven.

[levinas12]

Originally Posted by levinas12

I would think that, in these cases, the resurrected body would be a developed body - although not necessarily 33 years old!

Without a developed body, personal disclosure would seem to be impeded. But, without disclosure, how could a person unite with other persons (human and divine) in the loving community of persons which we know as Heaven.

A further issue. What memories (from this life) would such a resurrected body have?

It might have relatively few (if any) memories.

I mean, what memories, for example, could a fertilized egg have?

But, notwithstanding the absence of memories, the person, who began with the fertilized egg and is now expressed in the developed body, would be able to enter into community with the other persons in Heaven (human and divine). God would see to it.

[GEddie]

Originally Posted by levinas12

A further issue. What memories (from this life) would such a resurrected body have?

It might have relatively few (if any) memories.

I mean, what memories, for example, could a fertilized egg have?

But, notwithstanding the absence of memories, the person, who began with the fertilized egg and is now expressed in the developed body, would be able to enter into community with the other persons in Heaven (human and divine). God would see to it.

There is no way of knowing whether such a resurrected being would have any earthly memories.

However, they would definitely have a mind, and maybe that would be part of the task of those of us pneumatikon soma's who do have human memories: to assist them in filling their new minds.

ICXC NIKA

[GodHeals]

Thanks for the posts: I came across this: http://www.newadvent.org/summa/4054.htm