Faith Based Support Groups - Skinny in Heaven?

A friend and I were talking one day and I asked her this question: Do you think when we get to heaven we'll be skinny even if we're fat here on earth? Of course, she said that she never thought about it.

Better be or I've been way too nice for way too long!!!

I sure would like to believe that ... of course, this is quite subjective on our part, but maybe we all will have good health and a transformed body that is as perfect as we would like it to be. Wouldn't it be wonderful to be able to design the body of our choice too? It's heaven, after all, so why not?

I hope in heaven, unlike here on earth, that it won't matter. That what we look like will be the last thing on our minds (maybe we won't even look "human" anymore at all). I'd like to think that if fat people are thin in heaven, and thin people are fat in heaven, short people are tall in heaven and tall people are short in heaven, that no one would ever even think to make comparisons like they had on earth.

I tend to think of heaven as a place where we might cast aside the human form, because we don't need it anymore. If I get to pick, I think I'd still choose a bit more curvy form. Certainly not my current shape, but I thought I looked pretty darned cute between 170 and 200 lbs, I'd accept that on earth or in heaven.

I believe the following from our teachings ~

God in Heaven

Q. Will we see all three persons of the Trinity (separately) when we get to heaven? If so, in what form(s)?

A. The Scriptures teach that God "dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has even seen or can see" (1 Tim. 6:16), but when God reveals Himself to us in heaven we will then see Him "face to face" (1 Cor. 13:12; Matt. 5:8; Psalm 17:15). Probably speaking of the risen and glorified Christ, the apostle John writes, "Beloved, we are God's children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared; but we know that when he appears we will be like him, because we shall see him as he is" (1 John 3:2). What it means that we will see God revealed in His full majesty and being, the Scriptures have not revealed to us. Thus, we are not permitted to say what God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--will look like. In fact, we have every reason to believe that human language cannot convey, nor the mind comprehend, such a sublime reality (2 Cor. 12:4). That is to say, while no human being can now see God and live (Ex. 33:20) and while there will come a point when God will reveal Himself to us in the fullness of His unveiled glory in heaven, we must now refrain from speculating about what we do not know and what it means that we, like the angels, will behold the face of the Father (Matt. 18:10).

While this may not fully satisfy human curiosity, there is really nothing more that we can say on the basis of the Scriptures about what Lutheran theologians have in the past called "the beatific vision of God." For this, we wait with eager anticipation.