Some have imagined that since our bodies in heaen,
or that Jesus' resurrection body, and the body of angels,
and even God's manifest body are spiritual bodies,
they have no substance...
Jesus said after the resurrection that He
was flesh and bone...
angels can be seen as men,
God sits on a throne, holds books in His hand,
has a manifest presence, as well as His omnipresence...
and we, in heaven, will have a spirit body...
still able to walk streets of gold,
cast our crowns at Jesus' feet...
Yet the spiritual body of Christ could be handled, touched, could eat, etc.
The idea of our mortal bodies is that they are flesh and blood.
The life is in the blood. Jesus said of His spiritual body, that it was "flesh and bone..."
There was no mention of "blood",
for the life of a spiritual body is the "Spirit."
Thus, it will be immortal,
and incorruptible
because of the "Spirit" which gives it life.
It will still be a physical body which can literally
be touched, walk on streets of gold,
occupy a heavenly mansion, etc.
Luke 24:39
"Behold, My hands and My feet,
that it is Myself, handle me, and see;
for a spirit (ghost) hath not flesh and bones,
as ye see me have..."
I Corinthians 15:39-44
"All flesh is not the same flesh;
but there is one kind of flesh of men,
another flesh of beasts,
another of fishes, and another of birds.
There are also celestial bodies,
and bodies terrestrial:
but the glory of the celestial is one,
and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
There is one glory of the sun,
and another glory of the moon,
and another glory of the stars;
for one star differeth for another star in glory.
So also is the resurrection of the dead.
It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
It is sown in dishonour;
it is raised in glory;
it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
it is sown a natural body,
it is raised a spiritual body.
There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body."
The Old Testament saints believed in a resurrection.
Job 19:25-27
"For I know my Redeemer liveth,
and that He shall stand at the latter day
upon the earth;
though after my skin worms destroy this body,
yet in my flesh shall I see God;
Whom I shall see for myself,
and mine eyes shall behold, and not another,
though my reins be consumed within me..."
How are the dead to be raised?
The analogy of the corn of wheat
is used to illustrate the answer.
Out of the death, the burial of the corn of wheat,
comes a harvest many fold.
Life reappears in a higher form.
The identity remains the same, it is still wheat,
but infinitely greater.
Our new resurrected bodies will be fitted for eternity.
They will have a new vitality,
and a new strength.
There will be no curse, no sickness,
and no death to afflict these resurrected bodies.
They will be like the resurrected body of Jesus.
I John 3:2
"Beloved, now are we the sons of God,
and it doth not yet appear what we shall be;
but we know that, when He shall appear,
we shall be like Him;
for we shall see Him as He is..."
Spirit bodies, are still leteral bodies...
far greater than flesh and blood bodies...
but still bodies...
angels have a kind of 'spirit body' too...
able to father children...
condemned for the fornication they, themeselves
committed...
their bodies, though flesh and bone,
can appear as flame,
can go throgh walls,
can travel from heaven to earth
in moments...
human bodies were once made to be eternal,
had they eaten of the tree of life,
had not the curse of death come upon it...
our new bodies will be not cursed,
and the life of the Spirit shall give those
new bodies life...