What Will Our Eternal Bodies Be Like?

Tough Question for Christians #32—Foreskins
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AZ acknowledges that this question is pretty silly. “When you get resurrected, do you get your foreskin back?”

It is silly, but it brings up an interesting assumption in Christian eschatology, which is that the resurrected body is a “perfected” body with nothing wrong. But we can see that Jesus’ resurrected body still had the scars of his torture on them. And Jesus also eats, which means that the body will have to also dispose of the food, and so one of the most unpleasant aspects of having a body still remains after the resurrection.

Is the body “perfected”? Paul says that the body is “spiritualized”, which really means “empowered”, but I don’t think it means perfection. In eternity, sickness is gone, which I assume includes mental illness and disabilities. If Jesus healed a man born blind, then it seems that other similar limitations will also be eliminated. But will we be perfect? I think we will still stumble over our words, sometimes saying the wrong thing. I think we will still have misunderstandings, as we will not be all knowing. I think that we will still have to learn away all of our prejudices and we may have to determine not to participate in certain behaviors we continued to have until death.

I really think that the idea of “perfection” is one of the most unfortunate one in Christian theology. The Bible doesn’t ever speak of “perfection”, but completion. And what that completion looks like is up to God, in the end. With or without foreskins.