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March 09, 2005
Risen in Glory?
While reading in John 1 this morning I came upon an interesting point made by the commontariest Sir Charles Ryrie. He states that Christ will forever exist in his resurrected body. This is a new thought for me. I have pondered the issue of a new heavenly body in the past in reference to Jesus “preparing a place” or house for us in contrast to our earthly dwellings or “tents”. I have surmised that these new bodies will be similar to our current bodies since we are created in God’s image. But the idea that our heavenly bodies will be tied to our earthly bodies is a new one. How deep does the correlation go? Several times after Christ had risen his disciples did not recognize him. But according to John20:27 he still retained the marks on his body and Ryrie claims that according to Acts 1:11 (he will come back in the same way that he left) that he will still have those marks when he returns.
I don’t know… I have always looked forward to having a new body and being able to fly and stuff like that in heaven so this is a little of a downer. I don’t want to have every single scar that I have picked up in my 25 (plus however long I live after this) year life. Plus gees what would a person who died of a car accident look like?
Posted by paul at March 9, 2005 10:45 AM