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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Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
Things that are to be
65-1205 §33
Jesus has gone to make ready our coming there. Now notice: "In my Father's house is many mansions." Or let us... I don't mean to add to the Word or take from it, because we're not to do that. Revelation 22 said, "Whoever will add a word or take a word out of it..." But let me just make this as a ... not an additive, but just to bring out a point. "In my Father's house is many kinds of mansions." I don't believe that when we get to heaven that we will be ... just everybody will look just exactly alike. I don't belie...
God in His Word
57-0323 §21
How that God dwells in nature, His universe. How He makes the big hills and the little hills. I have noticed all... He is a God of variety. He makes white flowers, and blue flowers, and red flowers. He makes little men, big men, black-headed, red-headed, blonde-headed. Light people, dark people, brown people, black people. He is a God of variety. He is not a Sears and Roebuck Harmony House. He is absolutely a God of variety, and I'm glad that He is. He is in His nature, His universe. How he makes every star to move...
Life
62-0719B §12
So you see, God is so great, the tent stretched over us all. And we ... eating different foods, dressing different, look different, we are different. But God is a God of variety. He isn't a God ... He isn't a Sears and Roebuck Harmony House, see. God is a God of variety. Look out here: big mountains, little mountains, green trees, deserts; white flowers, blue flowers, pink flowers, red flowers; red-headed people, black-headed, and gray-headed, and then none at all. See, He's a God of variety. I believe He likes it...
From that time
60-0302 §25
Let's take some men that met God, that changed their destination and the destination of their generation. Let's take, for instance, Abraham. He was just an ordinary man. He was not a saint; he was just a man. And, oh, I'm so glad that we don't have to be born of a certain line or be some great somebody. We just have to be humble. God's grace is what does the work. Abraham, just a man, down perhaps in the bushes one day in the valleys of the Shinar Valley, out of the city of Ur, wandering about out in the bush maybe...
The infallible Word of God
56-0406 §71
How do you do? We are strangers to each other, I suppose, lady. We do not know each other. And then another picture at the time that I was just quoting. A colored lady, white man. And it was a Jew and a Samaritan; between Jesus and a Samaritan woman. And there was a racial affair in them days, and there's always been because of color of a person's skin. But Jesus let her know that there was no difference in God. We're all God's children. That's right. All the offspring of Adam. That's right. The countries we was ra...