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I’ve been on a hardcore “personal revelation” spree about the idea of the resurrection of the body. When Jesus was crucified and then later resurrected, he tells his disciple Thomas to feel his hands and thrust his own hand into his Master’s Side. When John the Apostle writes in Revelation, he says “the Lamb as It had been slain” (Revelation 5:6). When Jesus was resurrected, He didn’t just come back to life with a body people could recognize, it was HIS body that had been transformed into a new material. In this new body he carried all the Holy Scars that had been burdened with, now marks of glory. Remember, many of the disciples didn’t know him when they first met him. They didn’t recognize him at first (Isaiah 50:6) because of all the abuse that his body had gone through and even his face where his beard has been ripped off.
So where am I going with this? Everything we do is born in our body and soul because they cannot be separated - that’s why sheol (hebrew) and hades (greek) are always considered to be in a geological location. But more importantly, our bodies bear our sin and our honor before God. This Resurrection is the ultimate glorification of the material world that we can imagine. It is the transformation of the corrupt to the in-corrupt; of lasciviousness to innocence; of concupiscence to holiness.
This Resurrection explains why sin is so terrible and why the forgiveness you receive (whether in the confessional or through the grace of natural repentance) is so important. A protestant view sees the resurrection of the body as only a spiritual thing when it reality it is so much more, it is the physical recreation of our lost estate. In fact I think the key to showing why Protestantism (at least with its view on sin and forgiveness) would ultimately be wrong but on this topic I have not yet explored the logic that makes it perfectly known.
But there is so much to this single issue that affects us on earth, not just as a hope to look forward to but as something that helps us to stand against sin because of how it is born in our soul and body (if Jesus bears His Scars with glory, we will bear our sins with shame and gnashing of teeth).
So where am I going with this? Everything we do is born in our body and soul because they cannot be separated - that’s why sheol (hebrew) and hades (greek) are always considered to be in a geological location. But more importantly, our bodies bear our sin and our honor before God. This Resurrection is the ultimate glorification of the material world that we can imagine. It is the transformation of the corrupt to the in-corrupt; of lasciviousness to innocence; of concupiscence to holiness.
This Resurrection explains why sin is so terrible and why the forgiveness you receive (whether in the confessional or through the grace of natural repentance) is so important. A protestant view sees the resurrection of the body as only a spiritual thing when it reality it is so much more, it is the physical recreation of our lost estate. In fact I think the key to showing why Protestantism (at least with its view on sin and forgiveness) would ultimately be wrong but on this topic I have not yet explored the logic that makes it perfectly known.
But there is so much to this single issue that affects us on earth, not just as a hope to look forward to but as something that helps us to stand against sin because of how it is born in our soul and body (if Jesus bears His Scars with glory, we will bear our sins with shame and gnashing of teeth).