For additional notes and resources check out Douglas’ website.

Scriptures cited:

• Genesis 1:31
• 1 Corinthians 15:1-7, 47-52
• Philippians 3:20-21
• 1 John 3:2
• Luke 24:39
• John 21:12, 20:19
• 1 Corinthians 15:20, 35-37, 42-44, 58
• See also Acts 24:15

Further study:

• Be sure to listen to the related podcasts in this series on The Rapture & the Tribulation, What Happens After We Die?, and Thoughts on Heaven & Hell.
• The audio series, What Happens After We Die, will also be useful (3 hours + notes)
• The audio series, Revelation & the End of the World, should also be stimulating, esp. the section on the Judgment, Heaven & Hell (3 hours + notes).
• See also Gordon Ferguson's article on this subject. Click here.
• For a brief article on cremation, click here.
• Click here for more on our heavenly body.
• Another article on Jesus' resurrection and ours is available here.
• Notice the prejudice against the physical body in passages like: "Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance…. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me." -- Herman Melville, Moby Dick 85-86.