tdowns
Puritan Board Junior
The Apostles' Creed stresses both, though. The point is that the resurrection is not only a spiritual resurrection but a bodily resurrection. Inherent in the idea of a spiritual resurrection only is the necessity of soul-sleep until the resurrection, denying the "today" part of Jesus' words on the cross to the thief beside Him.
Hi John, right...thanks...but, I don't see how spiritual resurrection demands soul sleep, I know it's another thread, but, absent from the body, present with the Lord...when we die, we are awake somewhere, not asleep, but just not in our "physical" bodies...we are instantly resurrected in our bodies not of flesh and blood...I think that's what the Hyper Preterists hold to, but, Jesus, a special case, actually has a PHYSCIAL body for eternity.
I hold to the Apostles Creed, but, just as a thought.