📖 Biblical Definition
The Resurrection of the Body is the bodily raising of the dead at the last day — the saints to eternal life, the unrighteous to judgment. I believe in the resurrection of the body is the climactic article of the Apostles' Creed before and the life everlasting. 1 Corinthians 15 is its locus classicus: Christ's resurrection as firstfruits, the saints' bodies sown corruptible and raised incorruptible, the trumpet, the change in a moment.
📜 Webster 1828 Definition
Bodily raising of the dead at the last day; saints to life, unrighteous to judgment; Apostles' Creed article.
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1 Corinthians 15's sustained argument: Christ raised, firstfruits; saints to be raised at His coming; the spiritual body distinguished from the natural body but still body; victory over death.
📖 Key Scripture
1 Corinthians 15:42 — "So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption."
1 Corinthians 15:52 — "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible."
John 5:28 — "Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice."
⚠️ Modern Corruption
Modern Christianity often defaults to disembodied heaven; the Bible insists on bodily resurrection — transformed flesh, real bodies, in the new earth.
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1 Corinthians 15 forbids the disembodiment view: if the dead rise not, then is not Christ raised. The whole Christian hope rests on bodily resurrection. The household's eschatology: real body, real earth, real eternal life.
🔗 Greek & Hebrew Roots
Greek anastasis nekrôn; resurrection of the dead.
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Greek anastasis — standing up; resurrection.
Greek nekros — dead.
Usage
"Real body, real earth, real eternal life."
"The whole Christian hope rests on bodily resurrection."
"Sown in corruption; raised in incorruption."