The Resurrected Body of our Lord Jesus Christ

[ped]

By considering what the Scriptures say about the resurrected body of our Lord Jesus Christ, what, if anything, can be inferred about the future resurrected bodies of believers?

 

[Contra_Mundum]

Our bodies will be glorified, like his became in resurrection. I don't think there is too much we can say concerning what use we will make of them relative to the world to come that we will inhabit. We do not know the conditions of the new heavens and earth. Will the physics and chemistry be identical? Will there be differences beyond our present conception?

All we can say for sure is that we will have bodies compatible with that age, compatible with being in the holy presence of God without destruction, fit for use beyond what now we could handle in present configuration. Jesus' glorified body had powers in this world which made the limits of NOW seem like nothing. We will not live in the NOW but the THEN.

 

[pgwolv]

William Perkins, in his exposition of the Apostles' Creed, has this to say:

Yet in the exaltation of Christ's manhood we must remember two caveats: first, that he did never lay aside the essential properties of a true body, as length, breadth, thickness, visibility, locallitie which is to be in one place at once and no more, but keepeth all these still, because they serve for the being of his body. Secondly we must remember that the gifts of glory in Christ's body are not infinite but finite: for his human nature being but a creature, and therefore finite, could not receive infinite graces and gifts of glory. And hence it is more then manifest that the opinion of those men is false, which hold that Christ's body glorified, is omnipotent and infinite, every way able to do whatsoever he will: for this is to make a creature to be the creator.