Question 87. What are we to believe concerning the resurrection?
Question 87. What are we to believe concerning the resurrection? Answer. There will be a general resurrection of the dead at the last day, of the just and the wicked. Those who are then alive will be changed in an instant, and the dead in the graves, their very bodies united to their souls forever, will be raised again by the power of Christ. The bodies of the just will be raised by the Spirit of Christ, or by the efficacy of the resurrection of Christ as their Head, spiritual and incorruptible, like unto his glorious body. The bodies of the wicked will also be raised again in shame by the Lord, the wrathful Judge. John 5:26-29 “ For just as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son to have life in himself. And he has given him authority to execute judgment because he is the Son of Man. Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear his voice and come out — those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and th...