Sentences with phrase «first resurrection body»

His body the first Resurrection Body, the first Spiritual Body.

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It was the first major teaching of his pontificate, and covered adultery, celibacy and virginity, marriage, contraception and the resurrection of the body.

She is the first to share in the resurrection of her Son when she is taken to heaven in her body as well as her soul.

In the light of this profound and difficult thought about the resurrection of believers, and bearing in mind that he believed Christ to have been the pioneer or «first - fruits» of those who will be raised like him, I find it difficult to think that Paul could possibly have believed that Jesus rose from the grave as, or in, a physical body.

And while Jesus, like Sarpedon, endured the death of the body, he ultimately was saved from death at his resurrection: «Fear not, I am the first and the last, and the living one.

but everyone is in spiritual bodies the only difference is whether you make the first resurrection of the millennium those who made it will be in their immortal spiritual bodies which the second death will not affect them.

We have looked at the testimony of Paul, whose first - hand witness meets the historical tests, but we have found a view of resurrection which points away from the raising of a physical body to that of a spiritual body.

The first thing to be emphasized here is that the very use of the idiom of resurrection implies that the phenomenon of death is real for the whole person and not just for his physical body.

According to Luke and Paul, Simon Peter was the first person to form that body whose mind is the risen Christ, thereby effecting the bodily resurrection.

The fact is that, according to the first Christians the full, genuine life of the resurrection is inconceivable apart from the new body, the «spiritual body», with which the dead will be clothed when heaven and earth are re-created.

Therefore the community is described as the body of Christ, because here the spiritual body of Christ is present, because here we come closest to it; here in the common meal the first disciples at Easter saw Jesus» Resurrection Body, His Spiritual Bbody of Christ, because here the spiritual body of Christ is present, because here we come closest to it; here in the common meal the first disciples at Easter saw Jesus» Resurrection Body, His Spiritual Bbody of Christ is present, because here we come closest to it; here in the common meal the first disciples at Easter saw Jesus» Resurrection Body, His Spiritual BBody, His Spiritual BodyBody.

No good purpose is served by concealing this fact, as is often done today when things that are really incompatible are combined by the following type of over-simplified reasoning: that whatever in early Christian teaching appears to us irreconcilable with the immortality of the soul, viz. the resurrection of the body, is not an essential affirmation for the first Christians but simply an accommodation to the mythological expressions of the thought of their time, and that the heart of the matter is the immortality of the soul.

Accordingly, the fad that there is a resurrection body — Christ's body — defines the first Christians» whole interpretation of time.

I thought about the first witnesses to the Resurrection: the women who went to the tomb on Easter Sunday expecting to anoint Jesus» body only to find him risen.

First, the interest in bodily resurrection demonstrates that Christians understood the person as composed of soul and body, not primarily as soul.

This is the beginning the first pang — of the resurrection of the body into eternal life.

In the first case, this reminds us that baptism makes us part of Christ, members of his body the Church, and sharers in his death and resurrection.