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What Will Our Resurrection Body Be Like?

January 24, 2020 by wagraham 5 Comments

After we die, our bodies will (likely) be buried and then slowly decay. After many years, no distinguishable feature of our corpse will be left in the ground. Then we will resurrect from the dead. How? Will the biological material, dispersed through the ground, adapted into the flora, and consumed by the fauna now be torn from these sources? 

And then what will our body be like? Will it be like we have now but with what we might call super powers? Will a disabled body from birth have an abled body that, in many ways, will look and act quite different in the resurrection (as in the case with cerebral palsy)? And if someone has a disability of cognition in this life but not in the next, then in what sense will this person’s consciousness remain between the first life and the next? 

We can ask a great deal many more questions. Suffice it to say, our resurrection bodies and the experience of our resurrection life lies under a cloud of mystery. Yet Scripture does provide certain key rails for our train of thought on the resurrection. They are: [Read more…] about What Will Our Resurrection Body Be Like?

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: anthropology, resurrection

Paul says, “Put on the new man.” What does that mean?

November 29, 2019 by wagraham 1 Comment

Sometimes familiar language in the Bible loses its meaning because it is so familiar. One example is Paul’s command to “put on the new man” (Eph 4:24). What does that even mean? And why should it be so important for how we live our lives as the context of Ephesians indicates? 

To answer that question, we need to consider how paul uses “put on” language in the New Testament.  [Read more…] about Paul says, “Put on the new man.” What does that mean?

Filed Under: Theology Tagged With: Christology, resurrection

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Wyatt is the Executive Director of The Gospel Coalition Canada. He enjoys his family and writing. You'll generally find him hiding away somewhere with his nose in a book.

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