What's Your Density in Heaven?

What will it mean to be raised to new life with a new body in Heaven when Jesus returns to Earth as described in the Bible? It is a great promise in substance and a great mystery in process.

But how will it happen? There is a clue to be found in the mayo jar. When we fill up a large mayo jar with golf balls, sawdust, water, or even molten lead, is it full? Nope. It is not full. Density (how much stuff in a given space) is relative. If we look closely enough, we will find vast open spaces, even between the atoms lead or molecules of water. Where does one atom end and the other begin? There is open space! We are accustomed to jars and golf balls, water and trees and cars and telephones as the normal states of existence --- they are not, they are very specialized cases.

For God, who creates matter from nothing, these new bodies He promises are a small "problem" to solve. God can do it easily.