Overall, 37 percent of Americans believe there will be
a bodily resurrection of the dead, compared to 72 percent who express a positive belief that there is life after death.
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a bodily resurrection of the dead and a transference of the living directly from this world to another.
Even more incongruent, 6 percent of these atheists and agnostics also said that they believed in
the bodily resurrection of the dead.
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At one extreme there are many conservative Christians, both in sects and in the major communions, who, because
of their belief in the authority and inerrancy
of Holy Scripture, still look expectantly to a future point in time when the world will come to a sudden end and when, at the Judgment which follows, there will be a general
resurrection of all the
dead in some
bodily form.
At the core
of the Christian belief in eternal life is the
bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ from the
dead.
Irenaeus (c. 130 - c. 200) concluded from the widely accepted tradition that Jesus himself had descended into the underworld
of the
dead before rising
bodily on the third day, that «the souls
of his disciples, for whom the Lord performed this, will depart into an unseen region, set apart for them by God, and they will dwell there until the
resurrection which they await.
Jesus was the Christ from the moment
of his conception, but it took the events
of salvation and his
bodily resurrection from the
dead for him to be recognized as such by men.