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Home in the body is away from the Lord.

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In heaven we will be one spiritually with him. Not to sound ominous but it will be good not to have this flesh separating us from Him. The whole big heavy deal, but we will be like Him. My flesh is a pain to keep straight and it stinks. To have the freedom of spirit in a spirit world, that’s how God can supply our need forever. Oneness with His light and eternal life. It will never get boring..

The flesh puts so much between us and God. We can’t see Him clearly. We can’t love Jesus completely. But we will be like Him without flesh.
 
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But it won’t be the flesh! A glorified body that won’t feel pain, can go through walls, is perfect and can be one with God. They handled Jesus , He ate. Maybe he was made of papier mache. His body had spiritual qualities or His spiritual body had physical qualities.
 
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You will have a body, flesh, after the resurrection.
Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
 
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2Corinthians 5:6 says among other things the words that constitute this thread's title. What do you think of it?
2 Cor 5 (and 1 Cor 15) describe TWO Bodies not just one.

The first one is called "this decaying tent".
The second body in 1 Cor 15 and in 2 Cor 5 is "a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens".

1 Cor 15 calls is the body we get at the resurrection.

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"For we know that if our earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made by hands, eternal in the heavens. 2 For indeed, in this tent we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from heaven, 3 since in fact after putting it on, we will not be found naked. 4 For indeed, we who are in this tent groan, being burdened, because we do not want to be unclothed but to be clothed, so that what is mortal will be swallowed up by life. 5 Now He who prepared us for this very purpose is God, who gave us the Spirit as a pledge.​

BETWEEN those two bodies is a intermediate "unclothed" state of the soul having no body at all.


2 Cor 5:6 Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the body we are absent from the Lord—

While we are living in this first body, this earthly decaying tent body - we are absent from the Lord.

John 14:1-3 "IF I GO and prepare a place for you - I will COME AGAIN and receive you to Myself"

2 Cor 5:7 for we walk by faith, not by sight—
 
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You will have a body, flesh, after the resurrection.
Amen! -- That is a fact as 1 Cor 15 points out.

Jesus Himself proved many times in meeting with his disciples after His resurrection that His body was physical and 1 John 3 makes it clear that our bodies will be like his resurrected body.
 
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2Corinthians 5:6 says among other things the words that constitute this thread's title. What do you think of it?
As long as you are alive on earth, your human spirit is not with Jesus in heaven.
When you are no longer alive on earth, your human spirit is with Jesus in heaven.

Has nothing to do with the indwelling Holy Spirit, but is simply a spiritual distinction between human life and human death.
 
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But it won’t be the flesh!
It will be. Jesus said so.
(Luke 24:39 CPDV2009) See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Look and touch. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."​
 
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Now I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
(Luke 24:39 CPDV2009) See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Look and touch. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."
 
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(Luke 24:39 CPDV2009) See my hands and feet, that it is I myself. Look and touch. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones, as you see that I have."
Jesus says to her, "Do not touch Me, for not yet have I ascended to the Father. Now go to My brothers and say to them, 'I am ascending to My Father and your Father, and to My God and your God.'"
 
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But it won’t be the flesh! A glorified body that won’t feel pain, can go through walls, is perfect and can be one with God. They handled Jesus , He ate. Maybe he was made of papier mache. His body had spiritual qualities or His spiritual body had physical qualities.
Jesus said his body was flesh (Lk 24:39). However, it is immortal flesh.

Don't misunderstand Paul's use of "flesh," by which he means the sinful nature, not corpuscles.
 
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The works of the flesh are not just the body. The world, the flesh and the devil are spiritual forces, it’s the mind too. Such evil: Gal 5:19-20 . Look at what people do when they are in the flesh w/o the Holy Spirit.
 
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The works of the flesh are not just the body. The world, the flesh and the devil are spiritual forces, it’s the mind too.
Be specific, "evil" is not a work, it's a quality.
 
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