Will we be 33 at resurrection?

How old will our resurrected bodies be?

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At the resurrection we will receive glorified bodies. So what age will they be?

Right now our bodies are genetically flawed and they do not regenerate in the way they were originally designed to. So one feature of that glorified body will be the healing of damage.

Some of the inherited features we have right now may well be as a result of genetic flaws in our predecessors so I guess a glorified body would also purge those out.

Our brains our full of lies right now and stuff that blinds us and stops us using our brain power to capacity. I believe we will be resurrected without these hindrances. In the light of that superior perspective much of our lives before resurrection will appear flawed and wasted.

So not sure the age thing matters as much as the functional perfection and the alignment with Gods call on how we will serve Him in the age to come.
 
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The Prophet Isaiah, when speaking of the Age to Come, says, "The nursing child shall play by the cobra’s hole, and the weaned child shall put his hand in the viper’s den." (Isaiah 11:8), and elsewhere that when God has made new all things, "No more shall an infant from there live but a few days, nor an old man who has not fulfilled his days; for the child shall die one hundred years old," (Isaiah 65:20); the Prophet speaks in the hypothetical for there is no death then--instead he speaks of a hundred year old as being as still like a child in years.

I guess fundamentally, why wouldn't we be our age in the resurrection? Since death is no more, and there are no infirmities, no ailments, no sufferings in that coming world, then all the sufferings associated with age will be no more. If that were the case then we shall grow without suffering, grow without pain, grow without the tyranny of death and all that it brings.

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We don't have a definitive answer on that and probably won't until we get there. I find this sculpture interesting, though.
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At the resurrection we will receive glorified bodies. So what age will they be?

Age in this world is a measure of time as things Age.
Age in the Heavenly realm is a measure of rank and position that God gives.

Age in this world can attest to experience.
Age in the Heavenly realm can attest to the depth of the knowledge of the Father and Son within the Father's house.

Age becomes who we are within the Father's house of many rooms and not how old we are.

Age does not even come into play and is not in the thoughts of those who are in the Father's house.

Age becomes maturity in knowing the Father and the Son like children who look up to their parents and want to know and to mature in knowing them for who they are.

The earthly body allows us to look on the surface and discern geometrical shapes and appearances found in nature.

The Heavenly body allows us to look into the soul, the being themselves and to discern the person in ways we could not at the deepest level experience within the earthly body.

The way we will look at people in Heaven is at the person and not at the appearance which really would not be functional within the Heavenly realm.

Appearances are only functional within the earthly realm in helping animals and humans for identification purposes. In Heaven, we do not need visual cues to identify people but we identify them by the soul. We will identify people for who they are and not what they look like.

Jesus many appearances suggested that the followers were made to discern him before visually identifying him and this was a training and prelude to open the doorway for them to understand what Heaven will be like in the resurrection.
 
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I don't think age is the right word. The angels are thousands of years old by our measure. We will be glorified in our prime state. Youthful beautiful wise majestic having been set higher then the angels. There is no decay no imperfections in heaven. I have been granted to see what appeared to be a heavenly woman more dazzling then anything I've ever seen in this realm. I cannot imagine what God has in store waiting for us.
 
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I am at a loss as to why someone would bother to ask the questions :)
If you think there is no fruit to the question, think a little more, read the posts, think what you are taught, and think what you believe about the resurrected body. Then compare all to what scripture says. Scripture does say Jesus was resurrected with wounds, in the flesh. I believe he had the same body characteristics he had three days earlier, same age and physique.
 
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Time (age) and eternity are direct opposites. We have eternal life at the level only God deserves. In the resurrection/rapture we will have an eternal (ageless) body like Christ.
The thread is not about will we age in the resurrection. It is about the resurrected body on day one. People say the resurrected bodies will be a physical body they once had, although glorified to live eternally. If you think Jesus' resurrected body the example of our resurrected body, then we would have similar age, physique and wounds we had in life.
 
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The thread is not about will we age in the resurrection. It is about the resurrected body on day one. People say the resurrected bodies will be a physical body they once had, although glorified to live eternally. If you think Jesus' resurrected body the example of our resurrected body, then we would have similar age, physique and wounds we had in life.
Eternity has no time. Time is created along with space and matter. Jesus is ageless just as we will be.
 
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The risen body will enjoy a bliss and perfection and beauty that reflects its joyful participation in the completeness and beauty of God (Tho. Aq., ST supp., 3, Q83–85). The risen body “will be perfectly purged of all earthly lees and dregs, all senses rendered purer, all movements and actions more perfect, and because they will be removed from the necessities of this animal life, sleep, rest, food, drink, medicines, clothes, etc., and because they will be perfectly subject to the Holy Spirit, and their souls regenerated” (Riisen, 18.24, in Heppe, RD: 708). It is promised to be consummately radiant, agile, fine, and not subject to suffering (Tho. Aq., Compend. of Theology 168).

Oden, Thomas C. Classic Christianity. Harpercollins Publishers, 2009.
 
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The risen body will enjoy a bliss and perfection and beauty that reflects its joyful participation in the completeness and beauty of God (Tho. Aq., ST supp., 3, Q83–85). The risen body “will be perfectly purged of all earthly lees and dregs, all senses rendered purer, all movements and actions more perfect, and because they will be removed from the necessities of this animal life, sleep, rest, food, drink, medicines, clothes, etc., and because they will be perfectly subject to the Holy Spirit, and their souls regenerated” (Riisen, 18.24, in Heppe, RD: 708). It is promised to be consummately radiant, agile, fine, and not subject to suffering (Tho. Aq., Compend. of Theology 168).

Oden, Thomas C. Classic Christianity. Harpercollins Publishers, 2009.
Sounds like your tradition says we won't have wounds, but how do you explain Jesus showing off his wounds? Was his body not glorified as ours will be?
 
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Since the resurrection includes both the just and the unjust ( acts 24:15 ) what kind of bodies will the unjust have?
That is a very good question. It probably deserves its own thread though. Care if I do?
 
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Fine, but it addresses not a single point in my post or thread.
It addresses the fact that eternity has no time. So that should have answered your question about how old we will be or how old Jesus is.
 
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