Resurrection
Christian Doctrine of the Resurrection claims believers will be resurrected bodily when Christ returns. Christians disagree about the timing of Christ’s return, the resurrected body, and the scope of the resurrection. The Apostles Creed, written in fourth century C.E., affirms “the resurrection of the body.” The Nicene Creed of 325 C.E., states, “I look for the resurrection of the dead, and the life of the world to come.” This belief has been popular.
In John 11, 24 "Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.[1]
But verse 25 states, "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live: "
There are those who see the soul is not inherently immortal. The soul is only God’s gift that grants the eternal life of the soul.
2 Corinthians 5:6-8 reads:
“5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit. 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord: 7 (For we walk by faith, not by sight:) 8 We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.” 2 Corinthians 5:5-8
Jesus also says to the thief in Luke 23:43, “Truly I say to you, today you shall be with Me in Paradise.” Some other verses that theologians cite are Hebrews 12:23 and Philippians 1:23.
- ↑ Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
(I know that he shall rise again) This conviction was probably in advance of average Jewish belief on the subject. The O.T. declarations as to a resurrection are so scanty and obscure, that the Sadducees could deny the doctrine, and the Pharisees had to resort to oral tradition to maintain it (see on Mark 12:18; Acts 23:8).
the last day] See on John 6:39.