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Subject: Regarding the resurrection of the body
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Date: Mon, 17-Nov-86 01:01:31 EST
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Hi,							11/13/86

Dave Hatcher writes:
	1) What is being saved in order to bring the body to God?
	2) The above question leads into, What are we?

Scripture says God is spirit; and it says Jesus, who is God in the
flesh, has a physical body that is now in Heaven.  Since scripture also
says we are created by God in His own image, we then are not only
physical beings, but also spiritual beings.  So we have both a physical and
spiritual separation from God.  And we have a physical and spiritual
relationship with God: Jesus has a human heart and human arms to love us
with.  Confusing, yes ... but it is what I've come to believe from reading
scripture and listening to Christian speakers.  Easy to believe - no.  But
it beats out, for me, some of the other alternatives.  Scripture does
say God sent His Spirit, the third Person of the Trinity (one God,
yet three Divine Persons, or Personalities) to be with us until
Jesus returns.  So we can communicate with God, and He with us.

At death our spirits are either saved from eternal hell [which I think of
as separation from God], and at the resurrection our bodies are saved
from corruption.  This gets into the `glorified body' idea that is also
confusing.  I understand a glorified body to be where our bodies are given
eternal life and health as we spend eternity with God, following the
resurrection at which Jesus will return to earth in His glorified body
to separate those who love from those who don't.


God Bless,

Mike Andrews