Will There Be Obese People or Dwarfs in Heaven, Since God Made Man to Have Variety?
1) Direct Answer
No. In heaven there will be no obesity, no dwarfism, no deformity, and no effects of the fall. All the redeemed will be changed into a perfect, glorified body—balanced, whole, and in the prime of life—yet still themselves.
2) Scriptural Explanation
- The Bible says our bodies will be changed to be like His: “Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body” (Philippians 3:21).
- The resurrection body is “raised in incorruption… raised in glory… raised in power… a spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:42–44, 49). Corruption and weakness are gone.
- “God shall wipe away all tears… there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain” (Revelation 21:4). Pain, disease, and defect do not enter there.
- The Kingdom promise is restoration: “Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened… the lame man leap as an hart” (Isaiah 35:5–6). What was lacking is made whole.
- “We shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is” (1 John 3:2). Like Christ—recognizable, real, but glorified (Luke 24:39).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
- Obesity, dwarfism, and every bodily defect are marks of the present fallen order. The resurrection removes the fall’s damage and restores God’s original intention.
- Variety is God’s delight in identity, tribes, tongues, gifts, and glory (Revelation 7:9; 1 Corinthians 15:38–41). But variety is not deformity. God’s diversity remains; the curse does not.
- We will still be ourselves and know one another, but without any excess, lack, sickness, or limitation.
Short Reinforcing Statement
You see, God doesn’t carry the scars of the fall into glory. He perfects His people. The body will be like Jesus’—whole, strong, and glorious. So, no obesity, no dwarfism—only the redeemed in perfect, restored bodies to the praise of His grace.
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Separation from unbelief
55-0228 §25
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Questions and Answers on Hebrews, part 3
57-1006 §33
God, in the beginning when He knowed that... Man and women was made one, not two, they were made one. They were separated, one put in flesh and one in a theophany. He knew that. So in order to prove that to you: when God made the woman, He never took some dust and made her like He did the man; He took a rib out of the side of Adam, and she become a by-product of a man (because she's part of him). You get it now? There you are. There are the angels. And God and the spirit that's joined with God is one Spirit. That's...
Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §28
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Questions and Answers on Genesis
53-0729 §6
Now, in this, Genesis 1:26, God made man in His own image. And if you notice, we will get it so you can read it, and 26... If you'd like to read along with us, we'd be glad for you to do it, check me up. And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, ... over the fowls of the air, ... over the cattle ... of the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth. So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him;...
An Exposition Of The Seven Church Ages
CAB 9:E-89
When I think of this eyesalve opening people's eyes, I can't help but recall when I was a little boy in Kentucky. My brother and I slept in the attic on a straw pallet. The cracks in the house would let the drafts blow through. Sometimes in the winter it would get so cold we would wake up in the morning with such colds in our eyes that our eyes would be shut tight with inflammation. We would cry out to mother, and up she would come with some hot coon grease and rub our eyes until the hardened matter was gone, and t...