thinkaboutit: WT presents a straw man view of hell as a place worse than an evil person torturing dogs and babies with a pitchfork. The goodness and love of God precludes this. Hell is real as well as the torment there, but it is not a medieval torture chamber. This is a wrong view of relational separation from God. We do not have detailed revelation of heaven or hell, but heaven is better than we can imagine and hell is probably worse. Believing in hell is not a salvific issue. Anglican John Stott is a prominent Christian who changed his view to annihilationism. Rob Bell is in hot water for his apparent denial of hell, yet I don't doubt his salvation. The bottom line is what did Jesus/Bible say about it? Cults attack the truth of it; those who deny it don't negate it. I have been consistent in my view of rejecting it as the equivalent of boiling babies in oil or that it does not exist in reality.
newch., I missed that post, sorry. Angels did temporarily take on forms. The incarnation and resurrection of Christ is not in this temporary category. Tim. calls the glorified Christ, the man Christ Jesus. He is the God-Man forever. He was God in pre-existence. The incarnation is not a Docetic illusion, but Deity adding humanity. Resurrection from Gen. to Rev. is always physical, bodily (spirit resurrection is an oxymoron). Recreation is not resurrection. Jesus is not an angel and his form is permanent, not temporary. I will stick with the argument because Jesus said He was raising his body (temple, like our body is the temple of the Holy Spirit) and said it was He, Himself, not an apparation or recreation. He did not manufacture the nail prints. They show continuity with our new body (we will recognize loved ones in heaven, but my wife won't be in a wheelchair, amputees will get limbs, etc.). Jesus ate fish/bread after the resurrection. The Marriage Supper of the Lamb after our resurrection will also involve food. Since we have glorified spirit bodies, I speculate that we will not get fat, not get acne, not need to eliminate waste. It does say there will be no more dying, illness, injury, etc., so why not no more potty breaks (nuisance). Our bodies will not be mortal, but they will be spirit bodies (not immaterial like angels).
I would also point out that Gen. 6 Nephilim is disputable. I don't think demons procreated with men. I believe it refers to a godly line and ungodly line of humans breeding, not angels/demons/humans (genetic giants, not aliens). Even if spirit creatures/humans, it is still not the same as the Deity, virgin conception/incarnation, death, resurrection, ascension of Jesus, a unique situation, front to back without parallel.
A glorified body can eat according to Scripture. I don't think it needs to breath oxygen, have a circulatory or reproductive system, an elimination system. The former is biblical and the latter is plausible/probable speculation (so not dogmatic). The Bible does not deal with every detail about everything. It does say we will be like angels and not marry or procreate (Mormons are wrong), so there is another parameter. I don't think we will have sperm, etc. since procreation is off the table (except those who go into the millennium from the Tribulation in natural bodies).
Equally capable, godly believers differ on things that are not explicitly resolved in Scripture. We do not have cultic uniformity/group-think, but we do have love and unity on the essentials.
This is a moot, academic point compared to doctrine of God, Christology, soteriology (salvation). Let us major on majors instead of minors (and not minor on majors).
I appreciate that even if you now reject God/Bible that you would want to understand it. I think the Bible will stand up to scrutiny, but the Book of Mormon, Koran, etc. will not.
