(March 13, 2014 at 8:19 pm)Simon Moon Wrote:(March 13, 2014 at 7:33 pm)Lek Wrote: I 've experienced the same thoughts. How could anybody stand to live forever? It sounds very scary. Actually, I think most people have the wrong notion of the afterlife. According to scripture, we will be physically resurrected on the last day. We will have physical bodies and will eat and drink and all that stuff - the bible speaks of the great feast. The bible also says that after the resurrection we will live on the "new earth", possibly a recreation od Eden. So I imagine we'll probably have jobs to do and so on and need an abode of some kind. Though worship of God will be the biggest thing, our existence will be physical. As far as the"eternal" part goes, we probably won't exist in time and will be living in the moment and will have no thought as of the length of time. Nothing says we will know everything God knows and we'll probably continually be learning. Before you go off on this because of preconceived notions of the afterlife, the latter part of this post contains my personal idea of possible senarios, but the parts about the physical body, the new earth and the feast are in the bible.
Are the new bodies a reproduction of when we were in our prime?
What about those that had deformities in this life, will they have an un-deformed body in the afterlife?
What about those with mental retardation? Will they get a new brain in the afterlife?
What about those that died in the womb or as infants? Do they get a fully grown body?
You seem to know a lot about what happens in the afterlife, please inform us.
Read 1 Corinthians, chap 15. Our bodies will be like Christ's resurrected body. No aging, no sickness, no death, etc.
