Paul says something intriguing in 2 Corinthians 5.4. He says that our desire is not for death to "unclothe" us but that we may "be further clothed." In our confessions we confess that we are looking forward to a bodily resurrection. We confess Jesus' bodily resurrection. We consider the resurrection of Christ absolutely indispensable in the Christian faith. But why is this? It's because we are looking forward to a time when the death and sin in us is dead and when we as individuals will be partakers of the resurrection of Christ. We don't look to death as the time to get rid of physicality. We look to death as the time to put on the glorified physicality of the bodily resurrection.
Sadly, we often think like the pagans, who want to escape physicality through death. Let us rather take a Christian point of view and look forward to attaining true physicality, the physicality of the original creation, body and spirit working in true harmony, which God created in Eden.
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