Will We Have Real Bodies In Heaven?

The heaven we glimpse in the Bible is much more than a place of ethereal spirit beings. Heaven isn’t a land of ghosts; it’s inhabited by real people who enjoy a spiritual life, and who have a “glorious body.”

“But our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a Savior from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like his glorious body.”
—Philippians 3:20, 21. (See also 1 Corinthians 15:35-44)

When Jesus appeared to His disciples in His resurrected and glorified body, how did He describe it?

“Look at my hands and my feet. It is I myself! Touch me and see; a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have.”
—Luke 24:39.

Jesus had a real body; He invited Thomas to touch Him (John 20:27). On this occasion Jesus walked into a real house, talked to real people, and ate real food (Luke 24:43). We can be assured that our heavenly bodies will be as solid and real as Christ’s resurrected body.