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Jean I believe scripture interprets scripture..a word search of the word resurrection shows it speaks of bodiely resurrection consistantly..how can you just change it to a spiritul meaning ?

Is this a spiritual resurrection or a physical bodily resurrection?

"I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in Me, though he may die, he shall live. And whoever lives and believes in Me shall never die. Do you believe this?"

I believe this. I believe that I have already passed from death into eternal life.

God has given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son.
These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, that you may know that you have eternal life,...

In Him you were... buried with Him in baptism, in which you also were raised with Him through faith in the working of God, who raised Him from the dead. And you, being dead in your trespasses and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He has made alive together with Him, having forgiven you all trespasses, having wiped out the certificate of debt with its requirements that was against us, which was contrary to us.

If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory.

There are 2 resurrections and 2 only:

There is a spiritual resurrection. I have died and now my life is hidden with Christ in God. My life is in God.
There is a bodily resurrection. When my life appears which is Christ and is in Christ, then I will also appear with Him in glory.

This should make perfect sense to you as man is a 2 part being; spirit and dust. My spirit must experience a resurrection and my body must experience a resurrection in order for my soul to be completely alive and holy. If I only experience a bodily resurrection, then I will live forever dead to God. This is why the Lord removed man from the Garden. If Adam had eaten from the tree of Life, he would have lived forever spiritually dead and hostile to God.

And since I live in Christ right now, I shall never die. Blessed and holy is he who has part in the first resurrection. Over such the second death has no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ,....