Questions tagged [resurrection-body]
For questions about the nature of the "body" one will receive after their death and resurrection; also can be used for questions about Jesus' body after his resurrection.
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Why are we not sinless until our physical body dies?
Christianity has always opposed any religion that considered the soul purer or holier by nature than the body, as some eastern religions or Gnosticism did. At the same time Christianity through new ...
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According to the Catholic Church, are demonic unclean spirits the ghosts of dead humans, or the presence of fallen angels?
1 Samuel 28:7-8 ESV The Medium of Endor Raises the Spirit of Samuel
Then Saul said to his servants, “Seek out for me a woman who is a
medium, that I may go to her and inquire of her.” And his ...
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Does the body of Jesus breathe oxygen in heaven?
Before Jesus died on the cross, his body was functioning as of that any other human being where he was breathing to stay alive and then he took his last breath and died. Then rose from the dead and ...
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How do the Jehovah's Witnesses, and other people who believe in resurrection, respond to the cannibalism argument?
Jehovah's Witnesses believe that there will come a day when we will all get resurrected in our bodies. Critics say that the fact that cannibalism exists makes that logically impossible. If one person ...
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How does the Catholic Church reconcile the resurrected body pictured by St Paul in 1 Cor 15 vis-a-vis the narrations in Luke 24 and John 21?
We read in Luke 24:31 (NRSVCE) how Jesus walked with two disciples on the way of Emmaus post-Resurrection and joined them for a meal:
When he was at the table with them, he took bread, blessed and ...
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Does the “until now” in Romans 8:22 mean that the creation's groans have ended?
“We know that the whole creation has been groaning as in the pains of childbirth right up to the present time.”
Romans 8:22 NIV
“For we know that the whole creation has been groaning ...
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Building in heaven or raised imperishable?
It seems that believers will receive their new bodies at the second coming:
1 Cor 15:51,52: "Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed — in a flash, in the ...
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Do Biblical Unitarians believe Jesus rose and ascended in a "real" body?
I have seen many answers and comments (here for example) which seem to indicate that the Biblical Unitarian position is that Jesus was born again or born from above at his resurrection. The idea is ...
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Can we conclude that there is food and drink in heaven because Jesus ate and drank after the resurrection?
The glorified body of Jesus who appeared to the disciples after resurrection is one of the most foundational truths of Christianity, the basis of our hope for our future resurrection of the body as ...
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What happened to those whose tombs were open?
in Matthew 27:52-53
tombs were opened, and the bodies of many saints who had fallen asleep
were raised. And coming forth from their tombs after his resurrection,
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Does Aquinas's version of the beatific vision contradict the resurrection of the body and the new creation?
If I have understood the Supplement to the Third Part of Aquinas's monumental Summa Theologica correctly, Aquinas argues that, following the Last Judgement, the redeemed bask in the light of God's ...
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Are there any Christian scholarly publications on the differences between the nature of humans pre-fall and post-resurrection?
What was the nature of humans (i.e., Adam and Eve) like before the fall? What will the nature of humans be like after the resurrection (when those who are saved receive glorified bodies)? Are there ...
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What is the Biblical Basis for Christ returning with a physical body at the Second Coming?
I've heard Christians claim that at the Second Coming Christ will return with a physical human body, what is the Bible basis for this belief?
It is clear that he has a physical flesh body once:
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According to Catholicism, where will our resurrected bodies be after the 'final judgment'?
According to official Catholic teaching, the righteous will be judged after death and then go to either heaven (or purgatory) or hell.
However, there will then by a 'final judgment', at which point ...
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Is disembodied heaven better or worse than embodied heaven, according to Catholicism?
According to Catholicism, immediately after death someone either 'goes' to heaven (or purgatory) or hell. This is the first, or 'particular' judgment.
Then, at some unknown point in time, there will ...
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In Christian mortalism, what sets apart people who have lived from people who didn't live?
According to Wikipedia, "christian mortalism" describes the idea that the soul is not immortal, but dies together with the body and rises in the resurrection. Proponents of this are Jehovahs ...
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Where is Jesus' body now?
In Acts 1 we're told:
After he said this, he was taken up before their very eyes, and a cloud hid him from their sight. They were looking intently up into the sky as he was going, when suddenly two ...
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Can pastors at Evangelical denominations teach that Jesus was resurrected with an invisible and immaterial body?
Murray Harris has views of the resurrection body of Jesus which fall within the statement of faith for the Evangelical Free Church in spite of the fact that the body is not a human body.
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What is the difference between Jesus "resurrected body" and Mary's "glorified body"?
Jesus is Ascended into Heaven with a "resurrected body".
Mary was Assumed into Heaven with a "glorified body?
Revelation 21:27
"Nothing defiled shall enter the Kingdom..."
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Was Mary given a glorified or "spiritual body" like the resurrected body of Jesus while on earth?
In the 4th Dogma of Assumption Mary was assumed "body & soul" into heaven.
Scriptures tells us nothing defiled shall enter the Kingdom of God...(Rev21:27)
And also Gospel of Luke 24:36-...
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Is the incarnation of Jesus permanent, according to reformers like Luther or Calvin?
Before, I thought that by the time Jesus died, that's the end of His incarnation state after He fulfilled His role, spilling His blood for the forgiveness of sins.
Below is an article I found in this ...
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Why could not Mary Magdalene touch the resurrected body of Jesus?
In John 20:17 it is written that, when Jesus appears to Mary Magdalene after resurrection, He says to her:
Do not touch me, for I am not yet ascended to my Father
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Will the faithful eat and drink after resurrection?
At Luke 22:17–18 (RSVCE) we read:
And he took a cup, and when he had given thanks he said, “Take this, and divide it among yourselves; for I tell you that from now on I shall not drink of the ...
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What resurrection are they talking about? Matthew 22:28
I've developed the habit of not-just-reading the Bible, but dedicated my precious moment-just-after-waking-up time to give some effort to study the Bible every morning slowly. I read the Gospel ...
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Is it the idea of Platonism that describes the mind-body distinction in 1 Cor 6?
I get the idea that Greek thinking had a mind-body distinction. What I'm driving at is the label and origin of that distinction.
I get that Plato had an idea of objective reality - where he ...
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"You are dust and to dust you shall return" versus resurrection of the body (Catholic perspective)
In the Ash Wednesday mass of the Catholic Church, the priest puts a cross made of ash in the forehead, whilst saying:
You are dust and to dust you shall return
I understand the literal and (I ...
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Will men be circumcised after the Resurrection?
Not sure exactly why I thought of this while taking a shower this morning, but I was wondering if the Catholic Church has ever weighed in on whether the bodies of men will be resurrected circumcised ...
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Is it possible for a spirit to eat fish? [closed]
Is it possible for a spirit to eat fish? Then how did Jesus eat fish after his resurrection (Luke 24:43).
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How is age defined in heaven? [duplicate]
I am now older than what my father was when he passed away in 1967. Granted that both of us meet in heaven face to face, will his soul look younger than mine ? Is there any teaching available from the ...
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Is there any Biblical answers to what condition our bodies will be in after the resurrection? [closed]
I hear a lot of people claiming that our bodies will return to the state where we were at our best. Like for example, a woman with bruises from abuse won't have her bruises. Is there a Biblical basis ...
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Where does Augustine say that the rapture of the saved soul will "flow over" into the glorified body?
In The Weight of Glory, C. S. Lewis writes:
What would it be to taste at the fountainhead that stream of which even these lower reaches prove so intoxicating? Yet that, I believe, is what lies ...
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According to dispensationalists, does the "secret rapture" include a bodily resurrection and new earth?
Do proponents of a "Secret Rapture" understand this to be a bodily resurrection?
I can only conclude that the bodies are taken into heaven as they are taken away not just spiritually but actually ...
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How can we be with Christ when we die, if Christ has a glorified body and we won't until the resurrection?
It is taught that when we die we who believe in Christ will be with him right away, but how can we be right away with Christ if he has a glorified physical body that we are supposed to receive only in ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that the Lord Jesus Christ DOES have blood in his incorruptible body?
It seems some Christians deny that the Lord Jesus Christ presently possesses blood in his incorruptible body, citing Luke 24:39 as a basis for such a belief. That being said, what is the biblical ...
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What is the biblical basis for the belief that the Lord Jesus Christ does NOT presently possess blood in his incorruptible body?
Some Christians do not believe that the Lord Jesus Christ presently possesses blood in his incorruptible body. What is the biblical basis for such a belief?
For example, the Christian Apologetics and ...
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What makes the spirit and body inseparable after the resurrection?
According to Mormon doctrine, body and spirit combined constitute a soul. Every man and woman that has ever lived on earth, previously lived as a spirit in the preexistence, and was born to earth into ...
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According to the LDS, do Michael and Gabriel have resurrected bodies?
According to Mormon doctrine, when Christ was resurrected, so were many of the saints that had died:
"And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept
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Does Daniel 12:1–2 indicate the damned will have physical bodies like the Saints?
In Daniel chapter 12 we are given some insight into the last days, and it appears the many who have been buried will awake. Does this mean that all will have the same type of resurrection body?
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How similar was the resurrected body of Jesus to his physical human body?
Different Christian denominations have differing theologies of the resurrection: what it means for us, how it happened, and so on. What do the main bodies of Christian belief (Orthodox, Catholic, "...
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If flesh & blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God how did the Lord Jesus show His "hands and feet" after the resurrection? [closed]
As blood and flesh can't inherit the Kingdom of God, how could the Lord Jesus be resurrected with same blood and flesh? I mean He showed his hands and feet to the disciples in Luke 24:39. Or is that ...
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What denominations believe that Jesus Christ has a current physical body? [closed]
As a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, I believe that Christ after his death took up his physical body and that it was this now-perfected body that he showed the disciples, ...
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Which scripture was Paul quoting in 1 Corinthians 15:45?
Paul says while teaching about resurrection of the dead and resurrected body:
1 Corinthians 15:45 (NET)
So also it is written, “The first man, Adam, became a living person”; the last Adam ...
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According to the Catholic Church, will we have physical bodies in heaven?
I've heard and read that when we die, and we go to heaven, we won't have bodies. We'll be spirits only, but so happy that we won't need bodies or objects.
In School we were taught that when we go to ...
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According to Roman Catholic doctrine, does the incorruptible body possess blood?
In my translation of a work by John of Damascus entitled Περὶ τοῦ ἀχράντου σώματος, οὗ μεταλαμβάνομεν, it is my understanding that John wrote,
Even as his body prior to the resurrection of the dead ...
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Does Roman Catholic doctrine teach that Christ no longer has a body that possesses flesh?
Does Roman Catholic doctrine teach that Christ's incorruptible body no longer has flesh?
I was translating a work of John of Damascus entitled Περὶ τοῦ ἀχράντου σώματος, οὗ μεταλαμβάνομεν. In this ...
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What do protestants who believe our old bodies will be resurrected think that will look like?
Some Protestants believe that in the "resurrection" we will receive new bodies.
Other Protestants believe that in the resurrection, our old bodies will literally rise up out of the ground for us to ...
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Was Jesus' resurrected body the same as his glorified body that he now has in heaven?
Most people understand that the Scriptures teach that the body in which Jesus was crucified was the same body that came out of the grave. But regarding the body in which He now dwells, was that ...
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What is the New Testament argument against Gnosticism?
I'm aware that the rise of Gnosticism was after the New Testament was written – but it would seem that a lot of the ideas on which it was built were floating around at the time. (Particularly Greek ...
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According to Roman Catholicism, how old will our resurrection bodies be?
How is the resurrection of the body supposed to work in Catholicism? For example, if I die at 90, will I resurrect with the body of an old man? What about babies—will they simply resurrect as very ...
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