The Resurrected Body

35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” 36How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.38But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. 39Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. 40There 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. 41The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. (1 Corinthians 15:35-41)

Thoughts: This passage is not asking how are the dead raised as much as what kind of body will the dead have?  He says a seed may have a plant inside it- but it looks totally different.  One kind of living thing is different from another so we should not expect our heavenly bodies to be like our earthly ones.  God has the ability to take similar materials and order it differently.
    In some ways Paul is saying that just as a seed can only vaguely predict a plant- though having the same substance; so we only vaguely predict our spiritual bodies.   Our DNA is a predictor of what we will be like in heaven.  But our earthly DNA is imperfect- in heaven our DNA is made perfect. 1 John says if we want to look at the resurrected body, then look at Christ's body.  Jesus, after the resurrection, was able to walk through a door, eat a fish, appear to many at once, yet have the wounds and scars of this life.  

Prayer: Lord, I trust you to change me, raise me into what i should be.