This time your full post is seemingly there. So much for modern technology and perfect communication. LOL
What is a body to you? A physical body of flesh and blood according to what the five senses men are supposed to have?
1) sight
2) hearing
3) touch
4) smell
5) taste
Is that perhaps a fictional perception which carnal men speak about as if it were reality?
My answer to your question is not so precise and few people, including yourself I would guess, will seriously consider it.
For me Reality is God and the things of God as perceived by the Holy Spirit, the "eyes and ears to see and/or hear" in us, if we have them. What men who do not know God have is only what they believe they perceive via those five senses and what they are able to figure out using their brain and carnal devices.
Dead people have no real vision. They are blind and dead.
A man who is drawn to God and then approaches God as God calls to him has the beginning of a Real vision [not the fictional carnal perception], the beginning of something that need never perish:
First back to what Solomon inspired by God wrote about it:
"Where there is no vision, the people perish..." Prov 29:14
Jesus speaks of it in more detail:
"Therefore speak I to them in parables: because they seeing see not; and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand.
And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.
But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear." Matt 13:13-16
Paul lets us know where we are when things seem so very unclear and blurred at times:
"For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known" I Cor 13:12 [Did Paul not include himself in that "we"?]
And here in the Revelation it speaks of how to see when we cannot:
"I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see" Rev 3:18
The "future" is when if not now?
"This is the day which the LORD hath made; we will rejoice and be glad in it" Psalm 118:24
"Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shall take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Matt 6:34
Thanks for the sincere reply Amadeus, your response didn't really answer the direct question?
Jesus Christ maintained a body of flesh and bone after the resurrection, the Apostles tangibly touched this body that appeared in the room with the doors being shut, and vanished out of sight, this body ate tangible earthly food in fish and honeycomb?
The scripture teaches that when Jesus appears, we shall be like him?
Question: Do you believe in the literal glorified body of flesh and bone as seen in Luke below, will be received by the believer at the resurrection?
1 John 3:2-3KJV
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.
3 And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure
Luke 24:24-47KJV
24 And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
25 Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
26 Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
27 And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
28 And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
29 But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
30 And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
31 And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and
he vanished out of their sight.
32 And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
33 And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
34 Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
35 And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.
36
And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.
37 But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they had seen a spirit.
38 And he said unto them, Why are ye troubled? and why do thoughts arise in your hearts?
39
Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.
40 And when he had thus spoken, he shewed them his hands and his feet.
41 And while they yet believed not for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here any meat?
42
And they gave him a piece of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb.
43 And he took it, and did eat before them.
44 And he said unto them, These are the words which I spake unto you, while I was yet with you, that all things must be fulfilled, which were written in the law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms, concerning me.
45 Then opened he their understanding, that they might understand the scriptures,
46 And said unto them, Thus it is written, and thus it behooved Christ to suffer, and to rise from the dead the third day:
47 And that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name among all nations, beginning at Jerusalem.
