“Although believers will not receive their resurrection bodies until the rapture, it is apparent that believers will have bodies in the intermediate state in heaven.”

— Paul P. Enns

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 22

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American theologian 1937

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 77

“The resurrection state is the culmination of glorified humanity; is the change of the earthly for the heavenly; is the putting off of flesh and blood, and the putting on of the spiritual body. The body of the resurrection is the body with which the spirit is clothed for its celestial life.”

Randolph Sinks Foster (1820–1903) American bishop

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 519.

“As a believer is changed, receiving a glorified body, so similarly, the earth is changed into a new earth, unstained by sin.”

Paul P. Enns (1937) American theologian

Source: Heaven Revealed (Moody, 2011), p. 97

“Any body of men who believe in hell will persecute whenever they have the power.”

Joseph McCabe (1867–1955) British writer

What Gods Cost Man (1933).

“I used to measure the heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth.
Although my mind was heaven-bound, the shadow of my body lies here.”

Johannes Kepler (1571–1630) German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer

Epitaph he composed for himself a few months before he died, as quoted in Calculusː Multivariable (2006) by Steven G. Krantz and Brian E. Blank. p. 126
Unsourced variant: I used to measure the Heavens, now I measure the shadows of Earth. The mind belonged to Heaven, the body's shadow lies here.