Do people today still believe in a PHYSICAL resurrection?Or is it spiritual?

Question

Many peole would disagree if the resurrection is physical or spiritual. I have come across Christians who believe in physical resurrection. Is the belief that bodies that are destroyed would be reconstituted so the can go to heaven. What about the miraculous phenomena of incorruptibility could St. Bernadette be the only true Christian who is going to heaven. Since her body is so well preserved in an unexplainable way. And since incorruptibility did happen to a couple of other saints.

Answer 1

Absolutely believe in the resurrection of the body.

" ... I believe in the Holy Spirit, The Holy Catholic Church, Communion of Saints, Forgivness of Sins, and Resurection of the Body with life everlasting ... Amen."

Sure, I believe St. Bernadette is a Saint (already in Heaven) ... I also believe that the bodies that have disolved into dust, cremated, or burried will be resurrected too.

Answer 2

It is true that He died and was buried, in common with all other men, but unlike other men He returned from Hades, resurrected His own dead body, made it henceforth immortal, and emerged from the tomb, alive forevermore!

Body Resurrection:

The fact that the tomb was empty shows clearly that the resurrection of Christ was a bodily resurrection, noted spiritual resurrection.

The latter idea is a self-contradiction, in fact, because the "spirit" does not die and therefore cannot be "resurrected."

Indeed, resurrection takes place when the spirit returns to the body from which it has departed.

After suffering hell itself —spiritual death—on the cross, dying alone under all the weight of the sins of every man, He shouted in victory "It is finished!" (John 19:30). He dismissed His spirit from his body, allowing it to be buried in certain testimony that His death was also physical death.

When He returned to the body three days later, imparting to it a glorious, eternal, resurrection life, He demonstrated to all men of all the ages that He indeed was the Creator, that the problem of sin had been solved, and that death had forever lost its sting.

When Jesus return to obtain his body on the Saturday evening between 6 and 7 PM, according to the Jews ways of calculating a day. He obtian posession of his own physical body.

When he appreared to them Sunday afternoon. They thought he was a spirit. Notice what Jesus says to them?

In Luke 24:39-40 Jesus says; Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

And when he had thus spoken, he showed them his hands and his feet.

Answer 3

The spiritual body, also called the soul, is more substantial than the natural body. Man and woman lives a man or woman after death.

Answer 4

I think it's physical. your spirit goes to Heaven when you die, and so does your soul, but your body decays. if Jesus could multiply fish (more matter) why can't He fix up corpses?

Answer 5

I believe that when we die we will be spiritually resurected.

but if God wanted he could physically resurect you.

He did it for Jesus and Mary

He could do it for you.

Answer 6

I physically res erect a few mintes after smoking a cigarette!

Answer 7

yes physical .. Jesus defeated death and it didnt have power over Him physically or spiritually ..