STACY - In Sunday School we got
into the discussion of the resurrection of when our
body/spirit reunite. They were talking about organs
example: liver--and if we would have all our
organs---We were reading from Alma 40:23--I was saying
out loud yes--everything would be with
us--restored--then
they started talking about blood. I know some time in
my life I heard that there would be something
different Celestrial running through our veins.
Then, I started thinking about procreation. How the
Father told Adam and Eve to replenish the earth--how
we are to have families, etc. If Father in Heaven is
resurrected is it in the same manner that we are made
as spirit children, as well? This is something
sacred--and it makes sense to me. So, that is why I
say we would have ALL organs for creating children,
and etc. As for eating that is all together different.
Jesus did eat when he came to the apostles.
Then some Sister was talking about a book or talk a
Brother gave on the subject of the difference when we
are resurrected-- and our anatomy. Do you know
anything about this?
JOEL - Nothing has been revealed on how spirit
children are made. People can only voice their
opinions and speculations on this.
Since "even a hair of the head shall not be lost", we
can assume that all other parts of our body will be
with us when we are resurrected, but we don't know if
we will use them in the same way we use them now.
According to the prophets we will have only flesh and
bone bodies, without blood. President Joseph Fielding Smith said:
"After the resurrection from the dead our bodies will
be spiritual bodies, but they will be bodies that are
tangible, bodies that have been purified, but they
will nevertheless be bodies of flesh and bones, but
they will not be blood bodies, they will no longer be
quickened by blood but quickened by the spirit which
is eternal and they shall become immortal and shall
never die." (Conference Reprot 1917 Apr:63)
"As concerning the resurrection, I will merely say
that all men will come from the grave as they lie
down, whether old or young; there will not be "added
unto their stature one cubit," neither taken from it;
all will be raised by the power of God, having spirit
in their bodies, and not blood." (History of the
Church, 4:555-56.)
One might wonder since our bodies will be quickened by
the spirit rather than blood, what would be the use of
retaining our hearts? Or, if absolutely everything is
restored, what about all the hair and finger nails we
clipped off during our life?
Parley P. Pratt asked humorously, "Now can we suppose,
that when a man rises from the dead that he will come
forth with nails six feet long? I cannot conceive any
such thing." He was sure that a resurrected being's
nails "will be of a reasonable length." He did not
believe that every element that had ever been a part
of our bodies would rise with us in the resurrection
but that "a sufficient amount of the particles which
have once been incorporated in the system will be used
by the Almighty in the resurrection to make perfect
and complete tabernacles for celestial spirits to
dwell in" (Journal of Discourses 16:355).
If our reproductive organs are restored with everything else, will we
actually use them to create spiritual children in the
eternities? Noone knows the answer to this question.
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