A puzzle about resurrection...weird! (For Believers)

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silentkid wrote:Thanks for posting those quotes, Inconceivable. This idea of blood being a corrupting agent reminds me of the early medical techniques of bleeding someone who had a disease...get rid of the "bad blood" and the disease will go away. Once the germ theory of disease took hold, we understood this idea to be incorrect. Sure, some diseases are transported in the blood, but the blood is not the source of those diseases.

I wonder what the new spiritual fluid that replaces blood in the resurrection will be called? Jesus Juice?


It just can't be called blood. LOL
But, why not? Because it will be different?
Well, our skin will be different too (won't we be like supermen deflecting bullets etc?)
So maybe we better not call it skin.

I stand by my prior analysis: Contraditory passages written at different times by different people go into the Bible at some point of consolidation. Then Literalists invent doctrine to rationalize these passages- one says that we will be ressurected flesh and bone while another says that "flesh and blood" (read physical bodies) cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
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Inconceivable wrote:
truth dancer wrote:In addition... (smile)

The particles in our body have been used in other bodies, and when we die our bodies turn into the bodies of bacteria...

My understanding is that with each breath we take we inhale particles from every person who has ever lived.

Hmmm...

;-)

~dancer~


Excellent point, TD.

My grandfather told me this shook his faith while he was serving his mission in the early '20s. The question came up because he read that even though Joseph and Hyrum were resurrected, their remains were located and reburied to their current resting place.

He had the opportunity to ask one of the apostles that was visiting (gramps was equivelent to an AP so he roomed with him during his visit).

Here's the analogy:

"You have a 20 dollar gold piece. You put it in a bank. After several years, you make a withdrawel for the full amount. Question: Is it the same 20 dollar gold piece? Well of course not. But what has not changed is it's value. You have lost nothing."

(Now let's keep it simple here folks. I don't want anyone to be going off on the Gold Standard or the Principle of Compound Interest)

With what we understand about DNA etc, I don't have a problem with this at all.

But it begs the question, will Dollie's clones be resurrected too??


Sometimes I wonder if the Church has made its mind up on this idea. I've also read how they made such a big deal about Jesus body no longer being in the tomb. It all still seems possible, but it sounds like a lot of GAs have different opinions on the actual mechanics of the resurrection.
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It all still seems possible, but it sounds like a lot of GAs have different opinions on the actual mechanics of the resurrection.


That's the thing...it's all speculation. That's what makes the thread so much fun. The resurrection is not real. The whole argument about what the body will be like upon being resurrected is like speculating about the biology of the Queen in Aliens.
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I stand by my prior analysis: Contraditory passages written at different times by different people go into the Bible at some point of consolidation. Then Literalists invent doctrine to rationalize these passages- one says that we will be ressurected flesh and bone while another says that "flesh and blood" (read physical bodies) cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.


Which might explain why we haven't seen much doctrine invented lately by the Brethren on this subject or anything for that matter. Has anyone else noticed that? It seems like the amount of statements about what the resurrection will be like, Celestial kingdom, really died down after Joseph Smith.
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It would be nice if an actual believer would weigh in on this thread. The theory obviously needs some spinning.
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I'd just like to thank Tarski for starting this thread. I've lost 3 lbs.
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Until I know what Spirit Beings are made of and what their relationship to the physical world we know is I have nothing to add to this.
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Orson Pratt said: ...the principle of blood which flows in the mortal tabernacles of men did not exist in his immortal body; but his veins and arteries contained a fluid of a far purer nature than that of blood:


That sounds great, as long as it's not too pure to cause erections.
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The Nehor wrote:Until I know what Spirit Beings are made of and what their relationship to the physical world we know is I have nothing to add to this.


Maybe you could ask God about it this afternoon sometime?
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Lucretia MacEvil wrote:
The Nehor wrote:Until I know what Spirit Beings are made of and what their relationship to the physical world we know is I have nothing to add to this.


Maybe you could ask God about it this afternoon sometime?


I asked him it a few times, no answer yet.
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