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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah
Do the dead rise with their original physical bodies? What if they were cremated? I assume that if they rise with a physical body it isn't the same one they died with.
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In the Colton Burpo account, his older sister who was miscarried was a young girl who greeted him in heaven, yet she bore strong familial resemblance, so that he believed her story, though he had absolutely no prior knowledge that he even had a sister.
His paternal great-grandfather appeared to him younger than he did when he died and was readily recognizable by the boy in photos. Of course this only raises more questions. How can the boy, while dead and gone to heaven, recognize his own sister and his g-grandfather whom he never met? How can they have a visible form, yet have no body?
I long have condemned the paintings of the face of Jesus which I was so accustomed to see as a Catholic. I had always assumed that it was the imagination of some artist back in the dark ages. I assumed the same with angels. Now I'm not so sure. Possibly that picture could have been sketched by someone who actually died and came back from heaven. He/she was only sketching what had been seen.
Both of those two young boys Alex Malarkey and Colton Burpo claimed that Jesus held them and comforted them. They definitely knew who Jesus was and who He was not. Each "person" they met had a definite identity. Alex even learned the names of several angels who tended to him. He seemed to have no trouble identifying them once they were introduced.
Alex' father verified every story with the scripture. He was definitely skeptical, but as a parent, knew what his child had known, and knew what he had not known. Alex' story never changed from day one. Both boys knew things that were impossible to know. It was never a matter of whether they were imagining something.