8. The Resurrection of Our Bodies
The Resurrection of Our Bodies |
The representation of not few people about the resurrection is more in the domain of a certain abstractness, of an event with impalpable beings without body, not being part of our reality and ocurring rather in a world of floating and immaterial spirits. Their interpretation is that of a resurrection only of the spirit, in other words the risen people are supposed to take merely shapes of spirits without a physical body. The resurrection of the body is for many people out of the question, as this is for the human mind unthinkable. But let us consider in which way had Jesus risen from the dead. The apostle Peter relates the following about Jesus:
”39 And we are witnesses of all
things which he did both in the land of the Jews, and in Jerusalem; whom
they slew and hanged on a tree: (Acts 10.39-41)
Could a spirit have been able to eat and drink?
”36 And as they thus spake,
Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be
unto you. (Luke 24.36-43)
What is said about the ones who accept Jesus in faith? ”11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies ...” (Romans 8.11)
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