On Death & Resurrection

The Christian account of human death is a story of bodies and souls. Bodies are given the lives they have by their souls. Their souls are their lives, what animates them. Bodies, however, are mortal, and eventually die, resolving into corpses. When a body dies, its soul separates from it and continues to live, but now in discarnate form, without a body. Souls cannot die: they are immortal. Eventually, at the general resurrection, every discarnate soul is rejoined with the corpse of the very body it had been separated from at that body’s death, giving it new life. Such resurrected bodies are immortal. They won’t again cease to live by being separated from their immortal souls, and so their resurrected state is their final state. Read Full Article »