Why is bodily resurrection important to us?

[Average_Joe17]

This question popped into my head: Why is our bodily resurrection important?

When we die, aren’'t our souls the most valuable of them all? So there wouldn’t be no need to be reunited with our bodies once again?

 

[Wesrock]

Human beings are not souls moving bodies like vehicles. They make one substance. Human beings are body and soul. St. Thomas Aquinas would also argue that the human soul lacks many faculties absent a body, such as the senses.

 

[Vico]

This question popped into my head: Why is our bodily resurrection important?

When we die, aren’'t our souls the most valuable of them all? So there wouldn’t be no need to be reunited with our bodies once again?

Mark 12

18 And Sad′ducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection; and they asked him a question, saying, …
26 And as for the dead being raised, have you not read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the bush, how God said to him, ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? 27 He is not God of the dead, but of the living; you are quite wrong.”

 

[Gab123]

The whole point of the Resurrection of Christ is the conquering of death. thus Christ is the pattern which the saved will follow; that is, a resurrected glorified body. Here are the four qualities of the risen body which the saved will experience after the end of time, based on the Sacred Scriptures:

1. Impassibility – the glorified body will no longer suffer physical sickness or death, as Saint Paul teaches regarding the glorified body in 1 Corinthians 15:42, “It is sown in corruption, it shall rise in incorruption.”
2. Subtlety meaning that we will have a spiritualized nature in the sense of a spiritual body as did our Lord as we learn at 1 Corinthians 15:44: “It is sown a corruptible body, it shall rise a spiritual,” i.e. a spirit-like, “body.” We see that Christ’s glorified body was able to pass through closed doors.
3. Agility – the glorified body will obey the soul with the greatest ease and speed of movement as we read in 1 Corinthians 15:43: “It is sown in weakness, it shall rise in power,” that is, according to a gloss, “mobile and living.” Saint Thomas Aquinas says, “But mobility can only signify agility in movement. Therefore the glorified bodies will be agile.” We discern agility our Resurrected Lord’s ability to bilocate and travel great distances in an instant.
4. Clarity – the glorified body will be free from any deformity and will be filled with beauty and radiance as we read at Matthew 13:43: “The just shall shine as the sun in the kingdom of their Father,” and Wisdom 3:7: “The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds.” Here clarity refers not being “clear” but to being “bright.”

 

[otjm]

Perhaps the better question is, why did Christ resurrect, and what does that tell us? From that, why it is important is because that is what has been revealed.

 

[ColoradoCatholic]

I would say that God doesn’t create things for meaningless purposes. He specifically created purely spiritual beings without bodies for a specific purpose, and likewise he created us as a body/soul composite for a specific purpose: To take care of his creation, and apparently he thought it was so VERY GOOD that he wanted to join us. when you read about the qualities of a resurrected body according to Thomas Aquinas it gets really interesting because you are no longer hindered by death, time, space and that really opens up the horizons of taking care of a physical creation.

Zippin’ through the universe sounds pretty cool, then experiencing sensations as little as eating an apple or as big as witnessing the birth of a star, and glorifying and worshiping God the whole time. Sounds pretty good to me. You wouldn’t have senses if God didn’t give you a body. He uses this body of yours to glorify him (he did create you in his image after all). Hope it helps.