St. Gregory of Nyssa on the Resurrection of the Body

[@noeldoyle4501]

Thanks very much Father. This seems very interesting, it's too late at night now to watch the whole video. Please God, on Sunday I will learn from your video.

[@georgeince4136]

Thank you having read St. Gregory of Nyssas " On the Holy Trinity, "On the Soul and the Resurrection "i had found his writings to be quiet baffling thank you clearing up his teaching on the Resurrection of the body.

[@revmoochos]

Thank you so much, Fr. I have been in a place of despondency and depression, struggling to pray and maintain the faith during these dark times. Your unpacking of this wonderful work and the truth of God’s unbounded grace has helped me enormously. I look forward to more Holy Spirit moments!

[@Leibnitz1993]

Beautiful! Got goosebumps on how our bodies will be like when we resurrect: reconstitution of our natural form. Thanks for this, exactly what Im looking for

[@pbwbh]

Such an uplifting message.

[@jasonegeland1446]

The salvation of all men.

[@michaelfletcher1224]

So… I’m confused by this explanation. No physical body? I can follow that a resurrected body would be immortal and incorruptible… can’t die. I can understand that it would have a heavenly quality we do not now have, but how do we not have some heavenly kind of physical form? That seems demonstrated in the Bible by the one example of resurrection we know a bit about. The resurrected Jesus had a physical body. His disciples felt it. The resurrected Jesus ate food to demonstrate his physical form. He wanted them to understand they weren’t seeing a Spirit. So it seem resurrection doesn’t mean no physical form. So what are you saying exactly? The speculation that there wouldn’t be sexual organs (or a need for them) implies they weren’t needed before the Fall. Is that Biblically based? I don’t remember that being mentioned in the Bible story. Does that mean everyone become non-binary in heaven? Didn’t God create Man and Woman (different sexes) before the fall? Don’t the two sexes, by definition mean sexual characteristics. Why a man and a woman if that wasn’t part of creation and creation intent? This strange explanation leaves me with more questions than understanding.

[@thenarrowdoor7]

Yepp i got confused too , there is also another thing i dont understand , we can see elijah went up to heaven alive , and moses died and didnt enter the promised land , but both of them apearred on the mountain with christ in the transfiguration. So both have bodies. I think the ressuracted body happens not when we phyisically die but when the ego dies , the soul gets shaped in our body and gets an identity so that when we phyisically die , the soul has already a body. Thats what i think it means

[@michaelfletcher1224]

@@thenarrowdoor7 neither Elijah nor Mose were resurrected on the Mt of Transfiguration. Elijah didn’t die so not resurrection was needed. Clearly he’s a very special case, maybe unique. Mose on the other hand was present but without physical form as Christ had not yet died and been resurrected so Moses could not have been resurrected yet. Christ was the first fruits of them that slept (1 Corinthians 15;20-22) so Moses could have only been an unembodied spirit. Again, this shows how significant Christ’s physical body when he appeared to the disciples . Peter, James and John had seen the Mose on the Mt of Transfiguration as a Spirit so Jesus was very clear when he appeared to them that he had a physical bodied that even had the scars from the crucifixion. The Bible tells us nothing specific about exactly when we are resurrected other than to teach us that Jesus was the first and that once he was resurrected others were as well. (Matthew 27: 52-53). It’s safe to say that some time after we die we are resurrected and return to the God that gave us life or are cast out forever.

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