Hello OYB friends,
Wow, what a mind bender! Looking at the Bible, we don’t find anything specific to reach an answer on this question. If I had died when I was a baby, would I still be a baby there? Or how about if I was 90 years old? Would I be an old man in heaven? Lets take a look at 1 Corinthians 15:35-49 for some additional information.
1 Corinthians 15:35-49 (New International Version)
The Resurrection Body
“But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?" How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh; animals have another, birds another and fish another. There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor.
So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.”
Based on these verses, we could infer that babies are given a resurrection body that is aged to the “ideal age”. Or those of an old age are rolled back to the ideal age. So could we suppose that there won’t be any children or elderly people in heaven?
If this is true, then what is that ideal age? No biblical references come to mind to help us with this question. Could it to be around 30? Consider I John 3:2 where John declares:
1 John 3:2 (New International Version)
“Dear friends, now we are children of God, and what we will be has not yet been made known. But we know that when he appears, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.”
So since Jesus was about 33 when He died, we could conclude that this would be that optimal age. Well, whatever age we will appear to be, we are told that we will be gloriously perfect and completely Christ-like. We will strip away everything from this age and we will be wearing the white robes of purity, holiness and absolute perfection of Heaven. Praise God for his goodness to us.
A Pilgrim in Progress,
Lance Muller
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