Variety without Duplication

Perhaps one of the causes of lack of under-standing is the supposition that the saints in glorified bodies wilt be lost in one indistinguishable throng that all the redeemed will look alike and be alike. A little consideration will dissolve this misconception, for even in this world which we all recognize as greatly inferior to the heavenly scene, there is an infinite variety without duplication.
No two people look or act exactly alike. No fingerprints are alike in all the millions that the United States Bureau of Investigation has on file. No, not even in identical twins are they alike. Some such cases have been claimed to exist, but when examined carefully they were shown to differ. Those who have studied the blades of grass, the leaves of the trees, and the snowflakes, tell us the same variation is true. When man makes pins, needles, or other objects, they come out uniformly the same.
Since this creation is stamped by such infinite variety and lack of duplication, why should one suppose that the heavenly scene, "that which is perfect," will be otherwise. The deduction is unavoidable that there will be the same distinctions and personalities evidenced when we in bodies of glory will be with Christ. The "spiritual body" is not going to lack the distinctive individuality that has been in the "natural body." The chapter from which this last is quoted calls attention to various glories, even to saying "one star differeth from another star in glory." 1 Cor. 15:41. How could we suppose that the glorified body—the "spiritual body"—will lack personal identity which this body of our humiliation has possessed?
Were not Moses and Elijah distinguishable when displayed in the glory with Christ on the transfiguration mount? Was this only a mirage or an illusion? No, for Peter says, "we... were eyewitnesses of His majesty" (2 Peter 1:16), whereby we had the Old Testament prophecy confirmed to us. Moses and Elijah were not phantoms, but the actual men who talked with Jesus and "spake of His decease which He should accomplish at Jerusalem" (Luke 9:31).