The image of harps in heaven is drawn from Scripture (Rev. Robes are something people wore in biblical days, so it is common to picture people in heaven wearing robes, but we have no idea what clothes (if any) we may wear. Halos are simply an artistic way of representing holiness, and while we will be holy in heaven, we have no reason to think that this will manifest itself in halos as we see in illustrations. They are a different order of being than we are, and humans and angels don’t turn into each other. Catechism of the Catholic Church 328–330). Angels are created beings that are pure spirit and have no bodies (cf. Neither does the idea that we will become angels. The idea that we will have wings has absolutely no basis in Scripture or Tradition. The other images our culture gives us of heaven are also problematic. 3:21), raising the possibility that in our resurrected bodies we will be able to do many of the things that Christ was able to do in his resurrected form, such as appear or disappear from places at will, without locked doors or other barriers obstructing us. 15:35–44).Įlsewhere he states that Jesus “will change our lowly body to be like his glorious body” (Phil. What these modifications will be even Paul did not claim to understand, though he compared the difference between our bodies now and our bodies then to the difference between a seed and the plant that is grown from the seed (1 Cor. Our bodies will be modified somehow when we are reunited with them after the resurrection. Paul explains that “flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable” (1 Cor. Of course, ordinary bodies are not able to survive for all eternity.
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