While I bask in the warm sunshine of your applause and approval of my most minor virtue I’ll pose another wince you’ve posted this credo a few times.
“the resurrection of the body” is part of this credo you believe, yes? What resurrection to where? and what body?
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*But someone may say, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come back?”
The Resurrection Body.
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* You fool! What you sow is not brought to life unless it dies.
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And what you sow is not the body that is to be but a bare kernel of wheat, perhaps, or of some other kind;
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but God gives it a body as he chooses, and to each of the seeds its own body.
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* Not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for human beings, another kind of flesh for animals, another kind of flesh for birds, and another for fish.
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There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the brightness of the heavenly is one kind and that of the earthly another.
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The brightness of the sun is one kind, the brightness of the moon another, and the brightness of the stars another. For star differs from star in brightness.
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* So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown corruptible; it is raised incorruptible.
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It is sown dishonorable; it is raised glorious. It is sown weak; it is raised powerful.
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It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual one.
Dearly beloved, we are now the sons of God; and it hath not yet appeared what we shall be. We know, that, when he shall appear, we shall be like to him: because we shall see him as he is.
So the same bodies we have in earthly life—but our resurrection bodies will not die and, for the righteous, they will be transformed into a glorified state, freed from suffering and pain, and enabled to do many of the amazing things Jesus could do with his glorified body.