Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
(1 Corinthians 15:45-49 ESV)
Imperfect in many ways... That is how we might describe our physical bodies. Though when we are young there are times that we may think we are looking and feeling good, we are never perfect. Our bodies serve their purpose in this life, but they break down, wear out and die. They are just like Adam's body. Jesus Christ took on one of our bodies and lived in it. When He died and rose again, He became the first to have a new body. The glimpses we get of that body in His post-resurrection appearances assure us that His new body was far different, and therefore ours will be as well. They will function as they should in our new home, our new atmosphere. Many of the limitations, and the "falling apart", we experience now will not characterize these new bodies. It is beyond what we can imagine. But then, like every good thing God does, what else would we expect?
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