The phrase
"resurrection body" refers to the belief that after death, a person's body will be transformed or restored to a perfect and eternal state in religious or spiritual traditions. It suggests the idea of a renewed and perfected body that will exist beyond earthly life.
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Our resident theologian David Instone - Brewer examines how memory works and whether
our resurrection bodies will be accompanied by a reconditioned memory bank.
Yong goes so far as to say, «I further speculate that people with intellectual or developmental disabilities, such as those with Down syndrome or triplicate chromosome 21 — will also retain their phenotypical features in
their resurrection bodies....
So I don't think Jesus was saying the other disciples were more blessed — but that we in the future (who believe without seeing
His resurrection body) are more blessed.
This raises interesting questions about heaven, and about
the resurrection body.
And preparing the material definitely strengthened my conviction in Jesus»
resurrection body.
Later in the book, Baruch asked about the exact nature of
the resurrection body at the consummation, and he was told by God that the dead would rise exactly as they were at the moment of death, and after they had been given an opportunity to recognize one another, they would then undergo a spiritual transformation.
Emphases in the accounts: the disciples» incredulity; the reality of Jesus»
resurrection body; the difference between the risen Lord and the Master the disciples had known.
But precisely for this reason the same painter understood how to paint, along with it, in an incomparable way, the great victory, the Resurrection of Christ: Christ in the new body,
the Resurrection body.
The idea of a temporary state of waiting is all the more repugnant to those who would like fuller information about this «sleep» of the dead who, though stripped of their fleshly bodies, are still deprived of
their resurrection bodies although in possession of the Holy Spirit.
It was
the resurrection body that he depicted, not the immortal soul.
Here in communion with the brethren we come nearest to
the Resurrection Body of Christ; and so Paul writes in the following Chapter 11 (a passage which has received far too little consideration) if this Lord's Supper were partaken of by all members of the community in a completely worthy manner, then the union with Jesus» Resurrection Body would be so effective in our own bodies that even now there would be no more sickness or death (1 Corinthians 1 1:28 - 30) a singularly bold assertion.
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 Body.
And there the community passes over into direct connexion with the Risen One, not only with His soul, but also with
His Resurrection Body.
Accordingly, the fad that there is
a resurrection body — Christ's body — defines the first Christians» whole interpretation of time.
Death delivers us from this hindrance even though it is an imperfect state inasmuch as it lacks
the resurrection body.
Although the dominant mode of conception of
the resurrection body is in terms of material continuity and reassembly, differing views abound.
The difference that the Rapture seems to have made is that these people return with the Lord in a moment with changed,
resurrection bodies.
Slides explain the nature of
the resurrection body, the experience of heaven (and hell); the reason why Christians believe in resurrection, and more.