The Spiritual Body Copyright 1999, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. All rights reserved. We need to study this teaching often because it is essential for our own comfort and for the strengthening of our faith, and because this teaching has been one of the chief points of attack by skeptics, scoffers, and false brethren from the days of Christ and the apostles to the present day.
Most people believe in some type of life after death.
People want to believe that somehow their spirits will live on after death. However, Scripture offers a much more specific hope than this. It teaches not only a continued existence for the soul, but the resurrection of the body as well. .pdf file .rtf file Copyright 1999, Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. Permission is granted for nonprofit educational uses of this Essay.