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 | | From: | Thomas Hankin | | Subject: | A Re-Created Body | | Date: | Thu, 20 Jan 2005 04:27:25 GMT |
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 | A Re-Created Body
While it is literally true that our bodies shall live again,
Scripture does not require us to believe that God has to take exactly
the same particles of all the physical substances of which our bodies
are made and put them together again like a jigsaw puzzle. Let's not be
like that woman who blithely stated that she did not believe in the
resurrection of the body, because as the result of an accident she had
left one leg in England, and she fully expected to die in the United
States. If you expect the same atoms to be brought together again, how
would you expect this to happen in the case of a man eaten by cannibals?
His flesh would have been digested and become part of the bodies of
those very ones who dined upon him. In the resurrection, would their
bodies be robbed of the necessary particles to reconstitute the man they
had devoured? Do you see to what ridiculous extremes we would be led by
an insistence that God work in accordance with what we believe must
happen? Of course, nothing is impossible with God. I would not find it
difficult to believe that God is able to gather every fragment of bone,
flesh, muscle, and sinew that made up our earthly bodies, to make up our
glorified resurrection bodies. Men might conceive this impossible, but
God can do it. The only reason I declare that it is not going to be so
is that God's Word reveals that it will be otherwise (1 Corinthians
15:37). He, an omnipotent God who created our bodies in the first
place, can recreate them at the resurrection.
from "2000+ Bible Illustrations," Death.
"2000+ Bible Illustrations" is public domain.
God Bless.
Tom.
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