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Resurrection of the body

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  1. 988 "I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY" The Christian Creed - the profession of our faith in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and in God's creative, saving, and sanctifying action - culminates in the proclamation …
  2. 989 "I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY" We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so after death the righteous will live for ever with the …
  3. 990 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you. 533 The term "flesh" refers to man in his state of weakness and mortality. 534 The "resurrection of the flesh" (the literal formulation of the Apostles' Creed) means not only that the immortal …
  4. 991 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you. 533 Belief in the resurrection of the dead has been an essential element of the Christian faith from its beginnings. "The confidence of Christians is the resurrection of the dead; believing this we …
  5. 992 I. Christ's Resurrection and Ours God revealed the resurrection of the dead to his people progressively. Hope in the bodily resurrection of the dead established itself as a consequence intrinsic to faith in God as creator of …
  6. 993 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, "Is not this why you are wrong, that …
  7. 994 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life." 542 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will …
  8. 995 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 To be a witness to Christ is to be a "witness to his Resurrection," to "[have eaten and drunk] with him after he rose from the dead." 547 Encounters with the risen …
  9. 996 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 From the beginning, Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition. 548 "On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body." …
  10. 997 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 What is "rising"? In death, the separation of the soul from the body, the human body decays and the soul goes to meet God, while awaiting its reunion with its glorified body. …
  11. 998 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 Who will rise? All the dead will rise, "those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of judgment." 550
  12. 999 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 How? Christ is raised with his own body: "See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself"; 551 but he did not return to an earthly life. So, in him, …
  13. 1000 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 This "how" exceeds our imagination and understanding; it is accessible only to faith. Yet our participation in the Eucharist already gives us a foretaste of Christ's transfiguration of our bodies: Just as …
  14. 1001 The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws. 538 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him. 539 When? Definitively "at the last day," "at the end of the world." 555 Indeed, the resurrection of the dead is closely associated with Christ's Parousia: Risen with Christ
  15. 1002 For the Lord himself will descend from heaven, with a cry of command, with the archangel's call, and with the sound of the trumpet of God. and the dead in Christ will rise first. 556 Christ will raise us up "on the last day"; but it is also true that, in a certain way, we have already risen with Christ. For, by virtue of the Holy Spirit, …
  16. 1003 And you were buried with him in Baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead .... If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 557 United with Christ by Baptism, believers already truly participate in the heavenly life of the risen Christ, but this life remains "hidden with Christ in God." 558 The Father has already "raised …
  17. 1004 And you were buried with him in Baptism, in which you were also raised with him through faith in the working of God, who raised him from the dead .... If then you have been raised with Christ, seek the things that are above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. 557 In expectation of that day, the believer's body and soul already participate in the dignity of belonging to Christ. This dignity entails the demand that he should treat with respect his own …
  18. 1005 II. Dying in Christ Jesus To rise with Christ, we must die with Christ: we must "be away from the body and at home with the Lord." 562 In that "departure" which is death the soul is …
  19. 1016 IN BRIEF By death the soul is separated from the body, but in the resurrection God will give incorruptible life to our body, transformed by reunion with our soul. Just as Christ is risen …
  20. 1017 IN BRIEF "We believe in the true resurrection of this flesh that we now possess" (Council of Lyons II: DS 854). We sow a corruptible body in the tomb, but he raises up an …
  21. 1018 IN BRIEF As a consequence of original sin, man must suffer "bodily death, from which man would have been immune had he not sinned" (GS # 18).
  22. 1019 IN BRIEF Jesus, the Son of God, freely suffered death for us in complete and free submission to the will of God, his Father. By his death he has conquered death, and so opened …