Thursday, March 17, 2011

What comfort do you receive from the“resurrection of the body?”

Heidelberg Catechism

Question 57.
What comfort do you receive from the“resurrection of the body?”

Answer. That not only my soul after this life shall be immediately taken up to Christ its Head,[1] but also that this my body, raised by the power of Christ, shall be reunited with my soul, and made like the glorious body of Christ.[2]

[1] Lk 16:21, 23:43; Php 1:21-23;
[2] Job 19:25-27; 1 Cor 15:20, 42-46, 53-54; Php 3:21; 1 Jn 3:2

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