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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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
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Life story (William Branham)
50-0820A §121
See, I don't believe there'll be little babies in heaven. If they're resurrected little babies, they'll always be little babies. If they're real old people that resurrects on a cane or crutch, it'd be that way with immortality don't know. We'll be one age, one thing forever. We'll be of one age, I believe with all my heart, about the age of Jesus. I... That's just might be a thought but I don't... I know immortality, if it's resurrect a little baby that big, it will always be that way. I believe we'll be one age; t...
Hebrews, Chapter 6, part 2
57-0908E §69
Notice! God made a promise to Abraham, unconditional. And now, wait, Abraham did not have to do one thing. God said, "I have already done it." God made a promise to Adam, said, "Adam, if you'll not touch this, you'll live forever. But the day you eat thereof, that day you die." Adam said, "I just wonder what it's all about, anyhow?" He goes over and eats it, tampering. Every time that God make ... a man makes his covenant with God, or God with a man, the man breaks his part. So God had to do something, because He s...
Ye must be born again
58-0619B §43
And as soon as they got sleeping, He laid Leo the lion down over here, and Cheetah the tiger, down here, laid them all down (God did.) to rest His creation. And then the heavenly hosts come out. I can see Gabriel walk up and say, look at Adam and say, "You know, Father, he looks just like You." How many times have wife and I went up to the bed of little Joseph, last night even, and she said, "Billy, you know his forehead's high; it's like yours." And I said, "But his eyes are large, like yours." Why? He should look...
The arrow of God's deliverance shot from a bow
56-0801 §53
Now, see, you'll never be an Angel; you know that. You'll never be an Angel. You'll never get old; you'll never be wrinkled; you'll never be sick; you'll never have a worry. And you'll never be a Angel. You--you'll be a human being, only immortal. You'll have a glorified body like His body. You'll both eat, and drink, and live, and love, and--and associate forever and forever. Not spooks flying around in the air, never, the Bible don't teach no... God made Angels. Yes. But He made--never made you an Angel. He made...
Jehovah-Jireh
55-1117 §42
What did God do? He had turned Sarah back to a beautiful, young woman again. O God, when I think of it, what God can do! What a hope it gives you! Look, God paints a picture. God is a God of variety. That's the reason we can believe Him tonight being the God of the resurrection. Watch nature. The seed goes in the ground ... if you put a yellow grain of corn in the ground, it'll come up a yellow. If you put a white grain in, it'll come up a white grain. We're not all going to be blondes, or brunettes, in the kingdom...