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What will I look like in heaven?

You will be beautiful but not in a tanning booth, implant, skin-tuck kind of way. Your beauty will shine from the joy of forgiveness. We will not all look like supermodels. We will look like ourselves, but a better, more perfect version of ourselves.

We will appear in the physical form we were intended to look like—a body where everything (muscle strength, metabolism, bone density, etc.) will be at its perfect state.

Everyone will be healed of any handicaps or body disfigurations.

If we were intended to be imperfect (blind, diseased, handicapped), why did Jesus heal those issues while on earth and not just say "Hey, that's the way you were supposed to be.  I think you look great"?

While on earth, Jesus healed to correct the curse that fell on us by Adam, pronounced by God in Genesis 3:19, which caused the deterioration of our bodies due to death by sin. Resurrection restores God’s original intention.

You will have five senses. God originally created us that way. All of them will be heightened and working very well. You will probably shine because you are in the presence of God. Moses shone when he came off the mountain, reflecting God's glory.

You will walk on two legs. Hug with two arms.

We will be male and female. Adam and Eve were.

Jesus returned as Himself.

Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her. John 20:18

We will be ourselves. In the story of Lazarus and the rich man (Luke 16), they knew who they were, what they had done and where they had come from.

Jesus, in his resurrected state, was recognizable to eyewitnesses.

In Matthew 17, on the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and Elijah appeared and in 1 Samuel 28, Saul called up the spirit of Samuel the prophet through the witch of Endor. They were all three recognized by their identity.

Our names are written in the Book of Life, which means we carry on our identity, both internally and externally.

We will be ourselves, but a better version of ourselves, created the way God intended all His creations to be—good and perfect in his eyes.