AGC said:
PabloSerna said:
It is much deeper than simply looking down and saying "he" or "she". Insisting on that as a starting point to talk about God, creation, and salvation is limiting.
It has become more clear to me with my trans son, that God is right in front of us, leading the way. The temptation to over simply our physical nature leaves out much to be discovered. Try listening and understanding. As folks who are walking this path now and are forging on with their relationship with Jesus - there is much to learn from them (PacifistAg). In the end, I believe God will give us the body that was intended from the beginning. Like the apostles, will our friends recognize us in our resurrected bodies? Hopefully by our actions and words - not so much by our physical nature.
Is this catholic doctrine?
Do you believe that we're primarily spiritual beings with no connection to the physical bodies we inhabit?
From the CCC
999 How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself";553 but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, "all of them will rise again with their own bodies which they now bear," but Christ "will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body," into a "spiritual body":554
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I was attempting to relate a deeper point about the "glorified body" we will have in Christ. Just as the Apostles on the road to Emmaus did not recognize Jesus until the breaking of the bread, it would seem to me that physically something was different.
Another way to put is that there is a 100% chance that there will be no handicap parking in heaven!