Thursday 19 October 2017

Do People in Heaven Have Physical Bodies?

Mormons believe that there are physical people in heaven as well as spirits. Doctrine and Covenants Section 129:1-3 reads, "There are two kinds of beings in heaven, namely: Angels, who are resurrected personages, having bodies of flesh and bones— For instance, Jesus said: 'Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.' Secondly: the spirits of just men made perfect, they who are not resurrected, but inherit the same glory."

Firstly, angels aren't resurrected saints. Hebrews 1:7 (KJV) explains, "And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits, and his ministers a flame of fire."

Secondly, Matthew 22:30 (KJV) reads, "For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as the angels of God in heaven." He didn't say we'd be identical to  angels but that we will be like them in that they never marry. He wouldn't have said so if they were actual humans who received their resurrected bodies as Joseph Smith claims.

And how could we have bodies before the resurrection when the Apostle Paul explained in 2 Corinthians 5:8 (KJV), "We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord."?

We also know that a third of the angels followed Lucifer and became demons. How then can they, if they had material bodies,  inhabit people? Mark 16:9 (KJV) reads, "Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils."

Joseph Smith also wrenched Hebrews 12:23 (KJV) out of its context. "To the general assembly and church of the firstborn, which are written in heaven, and to God the Judge of all, and to the spirits of just men made perfect," How could they be flesh-and-blood people if they are spirits?

I'll be writing more defenses of the Bible and what God revealed to us in my next book called You Think You're Going to Heaven? We need to know how to defend God's word from error or we'll be misled. I hope I can help at least some people out of error as I was led to the truth.

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