The Resurrection of the Body

Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Apr 15, 1913

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 40, No. 15.

The Resurrection of the Body

Referring to the Apostles' Creed and the simple faith it expresses in the resurrection of the identical body, the Independent pleads for “the spiritual body,” which is Scriptural. See 1 Cor. 15:44-49. But that journal utterly perverts the meaning of Scripture by saying, “It is the spiritual body which will arise, that is, will survive; and the spiritual body is the soul immortal.” In the light of this, of what force is the record of the resurrection of Christ, of Paul's great utterances of 1 Corinthians 15? The only evidence of the Independent's belief is its own wish. The resurrection is of God, because mortal man has no immortal soul or immortal existence without it.