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CHAPTER THREE
I BELIEVE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT

ARTICLE 11
"I BELIEVE IN THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY"

988 The Christian Creed - the profession of our faith in God, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, and in God's creative, saving, and sanctifying action - culminates in the proclamation of the resurrection of the dead on the last day and in life everlasting.

989 We firmly believe, and hence we hope that, just as Christ is truly risen from the dead and lives for ever, so after death the righteous will live for ever with the risen Christ and he will raise them up on the last day.534 Our resurrection, like his own, will be the work of the Most Holy Trinity: If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit who dwells in you.535

990 The term "flesh" refers to man in his state of weakness and mortality.536 The "resurrection of the flesh" (the literal formulation of the Apostles' Creed) means not only that the immortal soul will live on after death, but that even our "mortal body" will come to life again.537

991 Belief in the resurrection of the dead has been an essential element of the Christian faith from its beginnings. "The confidence of Christians is the resurrection of the dead; believing this we live."538 How can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then Christ has not been raised; if Christ has not been raised, then our preaching is in vain and your faith is in vain. . . . But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep.539

I. CHRIST'S RESURRECTION AND OURS

The progressive revelation of the Resurrection

992 God revealed the resurrection of the dead to his people progressively. Hope in the bodily resurrection of the dead established itself as a consequence intrinsic to faith in God as creator of the whole man, soul and body. The creator of heaven and earth is also the one who faithfully maintains his covenant with Abraham and his posterity. It was in this double perspective that faith in the resurrection came to be expressed. In their trials, the Maccabean martyrs confessed: The King of the universe will raise us up to an everlasting renewal of life, because we have died for his laws.540 One cannot but choose to die at the hands of men and to cherish the hope that God gives of being raised again by him.541

993 The Pharisees and many of the Lord's contemporaries hoped for the resurrection. Jesus teaches it firmly. To the Sadducees who deny it he answers, "Is not this why you are wrong, that you know neither the scriptures nor the power of God?"542 Faith in the resurrection rests on faith in God who "is not God of the dead, but of the living."543

994 But there is more. Jesus links faith in the resurrection to his own person: "I am the Resurrection and the life."544 It is Jesus himself who on the last day will raise up those who have believed in him, who have eaten his body and drunk his blood.545 Already now in this present life he gives a sign and pledge of this by restoring some of the dead to life,546 announcing thereby his own Resurrection, though it was to be of another order. He speaks of this unique event as the "sign of Jonah,"547 the sign of the temple: he announces that he will be put to death but rise thereafter on the third day.548

995 To be a witness to Christ is to be a "witness to his Resurrection," to "[have eaten and drunk] with him after he rose from the dead."549 Encounters with the risen Christ characterize the Christian hope of resurrection. We shall rise like Christ, with him, and through him.

996 From the beginning, Christian faith in the resurrection has met with incomprehension and opposition.550 "On no point does the Christian faith encounter more opposition than on the resurrection of the body."551 It is very commonly accepted that the life of the human person continues in a spiritual fashion after death. But how can we believe that this body, so clearly mortal, could rise to everlasting life?

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  • OH, IF SHE KNEW JESUS...

  • One time, I turned on my TV and I saw the freakiest, scariest looking skeleton staring back at me. It had evil sunken eyes, protruding bones on its face....oh wait a minute...it was Joan Rivers! O_O

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  • I'm too scared to go to bed now :(

  • IT AINT GONE! SHE JUST INVITED MORE...THEY ARE LAYING LOW UNTILL A MORE OPPERTUNE TIME. WHY DID SHE THANK GOD FOR THE WORK OF THE VODOO PREIST? THE REAL GOD WAS NOT CONSULTED . READ DEUTERONOMY 18:11-12 DO NOT CONSULT WITH A MEDIUM, SPIRITULIST OR ANYONE WHO CONJURES UP THE DEAD/DEMONS. IT IS ANABOMINATION! MAY JOAN RIVERS DISCOVER THIS AND SEEK JESUS FOR RELEIF. ONLY THE NAME OF JESUS CAN OVER POWER DEMONS. A REAL SEASONED CHRISTIAN MINISTER LIKE BOB LARSON CAN HELP MS JOAN RIVERS.

  • IT AINT GONE! SHE JUST INVITED MORE...THEY ARE LAYING LOW UNTILL A MORE OPPERTUNE TIME. WHY DID SHE THANK GOD FOR THE WORK OF THE VODOO PREIST? THE REAL GOD WAS NOT CONSULTED . READ DEUTERONOMY 18:11-12 DO NOT CONSULT WITH A MEDIUM, SPIRITULIST OR ANYONE WHO CONJURES UP THE DEAD/DEMONS. IT IS ANABOMINATION! MAY JOAN RIVERS DISCOVER THIS AND SEEK JESUS FOR RELEIF. ONLY THE NAME OF JESUS CAN OVER POWER DEMONS. A REAL SEASONED CHRISTIAN MINISTER LIKE bOB lARSON CAN HELP MS JOAN RIVERS.

  • @u2bMODERATOR Amen!

  • @theywarnedus tsk tsk tsk. do u have a knowledge of the bible from open-minded study of it or were u sent there by someone who was attempting to teach you things to question? angels are all referred to as stars in a few separate occasions in the bible. this doesn't mean that they are all lucifer does it? 2 scriptures does not make a sound doctrine. to know the bible is necessary to try to debunk it. u see that satan tried to tempt "jesus" so y would this happen if like u say they are the same?

  • @DeathShamans

    a whole lot of botox and face lifting she's ugly lol

  • The dog knew. Even animals are wiser than us sometimes.

  • 2:55 heey wthhh that kinda scared mee !

  • @DeathShamans She has had lots of plastic surgery to look young. And they may have over done it. Her husband committed suicide some time in the past for inexplicable reasons.

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