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[color:"blue"]If God raises both the dead in Christ and the dead in sin at the final judgment, and those going to Heaven are given glorified bodies, then is it reasonable to assume those dead in sin will be given glorified bodies?

No! [img]http://www.the-highway.com/w3timages/icons/grin.gif" alt="grin" title="grin[/img] Those who died in the Lord await their final glorification, i.e., they will not only receive their incorruptible bodies but also the final and full transformation of their souls, aka: perfection. This glorification is a gracious gift of God which flows as part of the atonement of Christ Jesus. This was the ultimate purpose of His perfect life and vicarious substitutionary death. Glorification belongs ONLY to the elect. It is the end to which God has purposed, for only that which is perfectly holy can dwell before Him.
Ephesians 1:4 (ASV) "even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:"

Ephesians 5:25-27 (ASV) "Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself up for it; that he might sanctify it, having cleansed it by the washing of water with the word, that he might present the church to himself a glorious [church], not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish".

Romans 8:29-30 (ASV) "For whom he foreknew, he also foreordained [to be] conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brethren: and whom he foreordained, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Colossians 1:22 (ASV) "yet now hath he reconciled in the body of his flesh through death, to present you holy and without blemish and unreproveable before him:
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[color:"blue"]if they are raised, then on some level they must be perfected

It would appear that you are confused about what the word, raised means. Being raised from the dead is not a synonym for restored or even less still perfected. One can bury a body and then later dig it up without altering its original state due to its exhumation. The soul of man retains its natural state UNLESS it is directly changed by the Holy Spirit's regeneration. The soul's of the reprobate await the Judgment in Hell. You may rightly think of this as like a murderer who is held in prison without bail awaiting his trial, conviction and sentence after which he will be cast back into the same prison. The reprobate are not changed in their being at all. In fact, while they await the Judgment in Hell, I seriously doubt there exists that restraining power of the Holy Spirit which was active on earth. Thus if anything, these individuals will be given free expression (that which pagans are constantly crying out for) of their depravity. Then, they are brought before God, judged and sentenced to eternal damnation. They have no part of Christ, God, salvation and certainly not "glorification".

Yes, to a certain degree, those who are destined to hell will know more assuredly than ever before that God became flesh and dwelt on earth to redeem a sinful human race unto Himself. They will know that they are worthy of condemnation due to their hatred of God, Christ, goodness, holiness, etc. YET.. they will have no remorse or repentance of this hatred and rejection of God. They will be unchanged in their sinfulness. We can see the same thinking process among unbelievers even today. They all will confess that "if" there is a hell, they certainly don't want to go there. But their desire to NOT go there pales to their desire to sin. So, they want to commit the crime but not do the time. Their love of sin far exceeds any fear of punishment. Their hatred of God far exceeds any prospect of damnation.



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