One question that I’ve given some thought over the years, is the thought of the resurrection. A book in the old testament states how the resurrection of one’s earthly cadaver is to take place; aside from that there are the resurrection references in the gospels as well as a few other books in the old & new testament.
Jesus, supposedly or historically as christians like to put it, rose in his original body but it was also another more glorious body not limited by space and time. Making his human body not corruptible.
Psalm 16:9 “Therefore my heart is glad and my glory rejoices; my flesh also shall rest in hope.”
Psalm 49:15 “But God will redeem my soul; from the power of the grave he will raise me up”
Ezekiel 37:1-14 This one goes into detail on how many christians see how the resurrection may take place.
So my question is basic and simple in a normal world, but with this added “mystical” element, it makes it easy to make up whatever you want at a whim.
I want to know how the bodies of ancient peoples will rise from the dead. We know that these cadavers have decayed and become dust, by becoming dust, these dust particles have dispersed over many and sparse areas. We even have knowledge that many a times dust can come from across continents.
In addition to that, before complete decay, beasts and small creatures may very likely have feasted on these rotting corpses. These creatures then have either had offspring, defecated or become prey to other creatures. By having offspring the proteins and molecules they consumed now are used, to be passed on to a new generation and so on. Through defecation they have helped fertilize in one way or another the ground which may have given rise to edible or non edible plants and further the down line. By becoming prey to another creature, their acquired proteins and molecules are now part of the predatory creature and so on and so forth down the line.
Through that process, some human or more may have consumed edible plants or an animal that have had these proteins passed down the line. This human then procreates and has offspring with the necessary proteins and molecules for life.
Therein, you can see the question, when the resurrection takes place, because it must first take place with the totality of the human body, which is then enveloped in the “glorious body”, from whence will the flesh realign?
I can already see answers being made up to cover this discrepancy, again without any real shred of proof, only more talk, or by adding some magic element, that is also not closely replicated or implied in the Bible.
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