Re: CHAT: Religions (was: Visible planets)

Isidora Zamora scripsit:

> I don't
> know what they each believe personally now, nor what the official position
> of the PCUSA in on the ressurection of the body, but my suspicion is that
> the PCUSA believes in it.
You betcha.  The _Book of Confessions_ begins with the Nicene Creed, which
affirms the general resurrection but is silent on the point, but it is
immediately followed by the Apostles' Creed[*], which affirms the resurrection
of the body.  Many other confessions and catechisms adopted as part of the
_Book of Confessions_ by the PCUSA also affirm it and denounce those who
do not believe it.

There is nothing inconsistent, however, in believing that the resurrection
body is a "spiritual body", and it is said in several places to be
"conformable with Christ's glorious body.  This does not deny its
physicality, but enhances it.

[*]The Apostle's Creed is considered orthodox by the Orthodox churches,
though they do not use it liturgically.

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