spiritual resurrection as primary.......
spiritual resurrection as primary.......
Why not stick with the truth, the fact of the bodily resurrection.
Well,.....among the many theories, we can still hold to the essential reality of the spirit, recognizing its eternality, divine nature and immortality-potential. If this is the case, and the spirit of man naturally and automatically RISES from the fallen, mortal body upon physical death,...then that in itself is a 'resurrection' of sorts, while as man continues on in spiritual progress and perfection, he may also partake more of the divine nature and share in the immortality of God (becoming truly 'immortal'),...by such a 'transformation' of being.
While at least one early Chrsitian creed admitted to a 'bodily' resurrection,....one was changed to say a 'fleshly' resurrection, as the concept of a 'physical' resurrection become more 'orthodox',...
but spiritualists have always maintained and naturally believe that Jesus resurrection is essentially a 'spiritual' one, no matter how we describe the constitution of the resurrected body. That Jesus ROSE, is good and well, and it serves its teaching-purpose to show the triumph of the spirit over death, the path all souls take after laying down the mortal body, to ascend in their 'astral' or 'spiritual' bodies. In this case, a physical resurrection is unnecessary (unless souls continue to re-incarnate to continue their spiritual progress thru 'multiple life experiences' and learn and become perfected thereby). Otherwise,...souls may just continue on in the ethereal/spirit-realms, according the law of eternal progression, and entering into higher more pure spheres,....they naturally undergo a purification or transformation of sorts.
pj