The Resurrection of Our Bodies

At death, matter which has been organic begins to flow away into the inorganic, to be finally scattered and used (some of it) by other organisms.  The resurrection of Lazarus involves the reverse process. The general resurrection involves the reverse process universalized -- a rush of matter towards organization at the call of spirits which require it.  It is presumably a foolish fancy (not justified by the words of Scripture) that each spirit should recover those particular units of matter which he ruled before.  For one thing, the[re] would not be enough to go round: we all live in secondhand suits and there are doubtless atoms in my chin which have served many another man, many a dog, many and eel, many a dinosaur.  Nor does the unity of our bodies, even in this present life, consist in retaining the same particles.  My form remains one, though the matter in it changes continually.  I am, in that respect, like a curve in a waterfall.

The Business of Heaven May, 4   p. 109