Timtofly
Well-Known Member
I never said Adam's dead corruptible flesh could enter heaven, so stop pretending I did.Maybe you ought to back up and read what you've said, that flesh entered Paradise with Enoch, and Elijah. If you had understood Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 15 you would have known flesh and blood cannot enter into the Heavenly. This is why Christ's Apostles saw Jesus' flesh body being 'transfigured' when the spirit bodies of Moses and Elijah appeared talking with Jesus...
Matt 17:1-4
1 And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,
2 And was transfigured before them: and His face did shine as the sun, and His raiment was white as the light.
3 And, behold, there appeared unto them Moses and Elias talking with Him.
4 Then answered Peter, and said unto Jesus, "Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles; one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias."
KJV
God designed the sons of God to have physical bodies. They are in the image of Jesus' own physical body, received from God. Jesus never received a flesh and blood body from Adam. Jesus was God in human flesh, that was the image of the original sons of God created on the 6th day.
Enoch was changed out of Adam's flesh and blood into God's permanent incorruptible physical body.
Jesus' body did not change on the mount of Transfiguration. Jesus showed them what having the spirit means. Do you not understand that when each individual is glorified at the Second Coming, they put on the spirit, and shine as the stars?
Daniel wrote that:
"And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever."
Jesus said that:
"Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear."
When Jesus began to shine as the sun, that was what having on the spirit is suppose to be. John wrote that using symbolism, called a robe of white:
"And white robes were given unto every one of them; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little season."
The physical body is not your spirit, and your spirit is not a physical body. Those white robes are not literal earth made garments. The spirit is put on over the body, and shines like the sun. God is light. God is the source of all light. The spirit is the direct image of God. God is called both spirit and light. Seems they should be synonymous terms, no? Spirit does not mean ghost or ethereal like humans associate with "lacking a body". The spirit is light as is the sun, and all other lights in the firmament, called stars. Angels are referred to as fiery spirits. That is what a star is, a fiery spirit/light. God is not a created star. A star is created in the image of God, because God is both light and spirit. Stars don't marry and procreate other stars. So in heaven, neither do humans marry and procreate. Humans don't become stars, they just stop procreating. But putting on the spirit, will make us shine like the stars, but we will not turn into stars. Jesus looked like the sun, Jesus did not turn into the sun. We will shine like the stars. We will not turn into stars.
Do you not see that stars can appear in human form, as messengers/angels? Stars don't turn into humans, when sent as an angel. Humans were also created to shine like stars in God's image, when the spirit is put on over the physical body. Stars do not have a physical body. They only appear to have one, when God sends them as messengers to the earth. You will always have a physical body. If you did not, you would stop being a son of God.
"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."
We don't appear as sons of God. Lacking the spirit, we don't shine like the sun as Jesus did. But at the Second Coming, we will, when we put on those "robes of white" as John indicated. At the Second Coming Jesus will come shining like the sun, like He did on the mount of Transfiguration. That is when death puts on life, because we will no longer be separated from our robe of white/spirit.