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Virtus 5mo ago

The materialists reject the spirit. Pagans and transhumanists reject the body.

But to be human is to be a creature comprised of body and soul.

You are not a clump of cells devoid of a spirit and neither are you a spirit “trapped” in a body.

A soul without a body is a soul stripped of an essential part of itself. A body without a soul is dead flesh. At death, the soul is away from the body for a time, but it shall receive a new body. Not via reincarnation as the pagans believe, nor through technology as the materialists and transhumanist’s fantasize about. But a perfected, imperishable, resurrection body from the Lord. A body that bears resemblance and likeness to the bodies we have now, only without blemish and sin and corruption.

This is the ultimate, glorious, eschatological endgame: A new, glorified resurrection body in a new, glorified heavens and new, glorified earth.

#ToChristAlone

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R.S. Christopher 5mo ago

The early church understood this, and articulated this exactly in line with what you’re saying.

Death is best understood as an unnatural state, our souls were not intended to be separated from our bodies— such unnatural separation is entirely a consequence of death, which Christ overcame, in the flesh.

“If He had no need of the flesh, why did He heal it? And what is most forcible of all, He raised the dead. Why? Was it not to show what the resurrection should be? How then did He raise the dead? Their souls or their bodies? Manifestly both.”

~ Justin Martyr

“The Resurrection is the reconstitution of our nature in its original form. But in that form of life, of which God Himself was the Creator, it is reasonable to believe that there was neither age nor infancy nor any of the sufferings arising from our present various infirmities, nor any kind of bodily affliction whatever.”

~ St. Gregory of Nyssa

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Solar Saint 4mo ago

Not sure what you know about it, but you might be interested in some of the Latter-Day Saint doctrines, considering this is a core tenet of the lds faith.

I'd never heard anyone else talk about it this way except from writings of apostolic church fathers before the council of Nicaea. Maybe a few orthodox ive heard touch on it but not in such a committed fashion.

The works of our Father in Heaven are truly wonderous.

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Marakesh 𓅦 3mo ago

What about the bodies of unbelievers? They are resurrected too. Do you believe they are also immortal and imperishable? What would that be for? Eternal punishment in hell?

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Virtus 3mo ago

"Do not marvel at this, for an hour is coming when all who are in the tombs will hear his voice and come out, those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment." John 5:29

Yes, the unbelieving will be given resurrection bodies for everlasting damnation in the lake of fire.