Will we have bodies in heaven?

Yes—the central, historic Christian hope isn't a disembodied soul floating in an ethereal realm forever, but bodily resurrection into a renewed physical existence, following the pattern of Jesus' own resurrection.

Paul describes this using a striking metaphor: our present body is "sown" like a seed and "raised" transformed—"sown in weakness, raised in power," a real, physical continuity combined with genuine transformation, not an abandonment of physicality altogether. He calls the result a "spiritual body," a phrase meaning a body fully empowered and directed by God's Spirit, not one made of non-physical, ghostlike substance.

This is worth distinguishing from the separate, intermediate period discussed elsewhere—between a person's death and this final resurrection—where their conscious presence with God happens without their body, which remains in the grave in the meantime. The final Christian hope isn't escaping physical existence; it's physical existence gloriously renewed and completed.