Febraury 17, 2009 Ressurection

What can we learn about the ressurection?

D&C 88: 14-18

• Christ's redemption brought about the ability for all to be resurrected from the dead.
• A soul is the joining of both spirit and body. Unless both are together we are not a soul. Only a spirit without our body.
• The ressurection redeems the soul. Brings spirit and body back together.
• Ressurection is only through Jesus Christ who redeemed us.
• The earth will be sanctified for the righteous to inherit after the resurrection.

D&C 93:33

• man is spirit. elements (the things that make up our physical bodies) are eternal. spirit and element joined inseperably (a soul) bring fulness of joy.

We are not entirely happy as only a spirit without a body. It's like reaching an unstable state of being. We need our physical bodies to feel full joy. This is why ressurection is so important. What would be the purpose of coming to earth to recieve a body, feel a temporary joy in having our bodies and spirits joined together only to have them eternally separated again when we die? I think that the joy we have now with our mortal bodies is only a part of the full joy we will experience when our bodies are made perfect as our imfirmities, illnesses, handicaps are removed in the resurrection. (See passage below)

Alma 11:42-44

• The death that we are familiar with (there is another spiritual death) is a temporal death when our bodies and our spirits are separated. Christ has overcome this death for us.
• The spirit and body shall be reunited in its perfect form: no hair lost, all limbs in their proper frame.
• All will be restored to their perfect form: man, woman, bond and free, righteous and wicked. Ressurection is a gift given to all.
• After ressurection we will be brought to stand before God and have a perfect knowledge of all our guilt and we will be judged according to our works, good or evil.