Question 57: What comfort does the resurrection of the body give you?

 

Question 57: What comfort does the resurrection of the body give you?

Answer: Not only will my soul immediately go to Christ, my head, after death, but my body will also be raised by the power of Christ and united with my soul to be made like Christ's glorious body.

There is no passage in the Bible that says a dead body is reunited with a soul and brought back to life. 1 Peter 3:18 says, "For Christ suffered once for all for sins, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the body but made alive by the Spirit."

The physical body we received from our parents cannot be resurrected. The resurrection is the spirit imprisoned within the physical body being made alive and given a spiritual body. 1 Corinthians 15:44 says, "It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual (pneumatiko) body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body." Pneumatiko means spirit. Therefore, the spiritual body is a spiritual body.

Resurrection means returning to one's original state. Originally angels, they sinned, their spirits were trapped in bodies, and they became human. However, through repentance, they return to their original state as angelic spirits. Luke 20:36 states, "Neither can they die again, for they are equal to angels and are children of God, being children of the resurrection."

Ephesians 2:6 “And raised us up together, and made us sit together in the heavenly places (epouranois) in Christ Jesus.” Although our bodies are in the world, our resurrected spirits are clothed in angelic attire and are at the right hand of God.

Matthew 18:10, "See that you do not despise one of these little ones. For I tell you that their angels in heaven always see the face of my Father who is in heaven." This explains that the saints were spiritually resurrected, received spiritual bodies, and were seated in heaven, returning as angels. Their bodies are in the world, but their spirits are at God's right hand. This signifies heaven within the soul.

 

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