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

بِأَنْ يَجْمَعَ أَجْزَاءَهُمُ الْأَصْلِيَّةَ، وَيُعِيدَ الْأَرْوَاحَ
By gathering their original components and returning their souls.

The Hereafter is not reduced to the continued existence of a soul wholly disconnected from the person's earthly body. Bodily restoration and the return of the soul are both affirmed.

An exclusively spiritual account fails to capture the full force of the scriptural statements about bodily resurrection. Conversely, resurrection need not require that every particle return to precisely its former location or temporary condition. The essential claim is continuity of the same human being, bodily as well as personally.

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

بِأَنْ يَجْمَعَ أَجْزَاءَهُمُ الْأَصْلِيَّةَ، وَيُعِيدَ الْأَرْوَاحَ
By gathering their original components and returning their souls.

The Hereafter is not reduced to the continued existence of a soul wholly disconnected from the person's earthly body. Bodily restoration and the return of the soul are both affirmed.

An exclusively spiritual account fails to capture the full force of the scriptural statements about bodily resurrection. Conversely, resurrection need not require that every particle return to precisely its former location or temporary condition. The essential claim is continuity of the same human being, bodily as well as personally.