The expression "glorified body" ... can anyone tell where in the Scriptures we hear about it?
Php 3:21 ος μετασχηματισει __ (idea: meta-schema)
το σωμα της ταπεινωσεως ημων __ ( having a human body is not a humilliation, but compared with Jesus' body is a very simple and humble one)
συμμορφον τω σωματι της δοξης αυτου __ (it is about getting a new form, Jesus' body form, a glorious one)
κατα την ενεργειαν του δυνασθαι αυτον και υποταξαι αυτω τα παντα __ (it is about Jesus transforming with his power, getting "something" and making it a whole new "thing")
This passage implies not only a change, but a new construction, which is obvious since in the resurrection no people will have the same body they died with, but a new one. It is not talking about other's people bodies, but Jesus' glorious body. I think it is not exact to talk about "glorified bodies" ... and neither talking about fleshy glorified bodies. A body of flesh and bones is still a humble one, a simple one, compared with angels bodies, for example.
1Co 15:35 (ESV) But someone will ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?"
36 You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
37 And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain.
38 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body.
This passage is comparing the new body with a plant, saying the plant that rise from a seed is not the seed, but something totally new that grows when the seed die. A body of resurrection has from the dead body what a tree has from the seed ... no more.
My point is: why do I need to talk about flesh and bones entering in heaven if Scriptures says exactly the contrary?
And why talking about "glorified bodies" of flesh and bones, if the body of the resurrected ones only get from the dead body "what the tree get from the seed"? There are other kind of bodies, like angels have. I don't see anywhere in the Scritures anything about glorified bodies of flesh and bones.
1Co 15:44 (ESV) It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
Was the human body of Jesus a "glorified body" as people use the expression? If no ... how so?
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