29 min
What is Resurrection? with Lucas Mix The ChurchNext Podcast
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The physical side of the resurrection is not often spoken of in mainline Protestant churches. That is, we get it in theory but choose not to think about that side of the resurrection too much. Influenced by Platonism and by the overall notion that our sinful bodies tend to get us into trouble, many Christians think of the body as something problematic that we leave behind in death. And, we wonder, how would a physical resurrection even work, anyway? Our bodies stay here. We are dust and to dust we do return. It is perhaps not surprising that as a culture, many of us approach the resurrection as a purely spiritual event, even knowing that this approach doesn’t wholly encompass Christian theology on resurrection.
If we pattern our hope for resurrection on Jesus', then we can assume that (1) we will rise to new life after death; that (2) our risen life will differ from our life on earth today; and that (3) our resurrection will be physical in nature as well as spiritual. In today’s podcast, the Rev. Lucas Mix discusses the nature of resurrected life, emphasizing its physicality and what that physicality means for us both in the afterlife and in our lives today. He discusses what scripture tells us about the afterlife and how Greek and Jewish ideas about the afterlife have affected the way we understand it.
The physical side of the resurrection is not often spoken of in mainline Protestant churches. That is, we get it in theory but choose not to think about that side of the resurrection too much. Influenced by Platonism and by the overall notion that our sinful bodies tend to get us into trouble, many Christians think of the body as something problematic that we leave behind in death. And, we wonder, how would a physical resurrection even work, anyway? Our bodies stay here. We are dust and to dust we do return. It is perhaps not surprising that as a culture, many of us approach the resurrection as a purely spiritual event, even knowing that this approach doesn’t wholly encompass Christian theology on resurrection.
If we pattern our hope for resurrection on Jesus', then we can assume that (1) we will rise to new life after death; that (2) our risen life will differ from our life on earth today; and that (3) our resurrection will be physical in nature as well as spiritual. In today’s podcast, the Rev. Lucas Mix discusses the nature of resurrected life, emphasizing its physicality and what that physicality means for us both in the afterlife and in our lives today. He discusses what scripture tells us about the afterlife and how Greek and Jewish ideas about the afterlife have affected the way we understand it.
29 min