LessonsResurrection Is True: Bodily Restoration, Original Parts, and the Problem of Re-CreationQuiz

قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنْشَأَهَا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ
Say: The One who brought them into being the first time will give them life. (Yā Sīn 36:79)

The One who originally brought human beings into existence is capable of raising them again. The means of initial creation and later restoration need not be identical, but both depend on divine power.

This argument also clarifies possibility versus occurrence. The original creation shows that resurrection is not beyond divine power; revelation establishes that it will actually happen. Possibility by itself does not prove occurrence, and difficulty imagining the process does not establish impossibility.

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An argument from the first creation

Resurrection Is True: Bodily Restoration, Original Parts, and the Problem of Re-Creation

قُلْ يُحْيِيهَا الَّذِي أَنْشَأَهَا أَوَّلَ مَرَّةٍ
Say: The One who brought them into being the first time will give them life. (Yā Sīn 36:79)

The One who originally brought human beings into existence is capable of raising them again. The means of initial creation and later restoration need not be identical, but both depend on divine power.

This argument also clarifies possibility versus occurrence. The original creation shows that resurrection is not beyond divine power; revelation establishes that it will actually happen. Possibility by itself does not prove occurrence, and difficulty imagining the process does not establish impossibility.