Gospel Principles
Unit 4: Jesus Christ as Our Savior
Chapter 12: The Atonement
Concept 4: The Atonement and Resurrection Bring Resurrection to All

"On the third day after his crucifixion, Christ took up his body again and became the first person to be resurrected.  When his friends went to seek him, the angels who guarded his tomb told them,  "He is not here: for he is risen, as he said" (Matthew 28:6).  His spirit had reentered his body, never to be separated again.

Christ thus overcame physical death.  Because of his atonement, everyone born on this earth will be resurrected (1 Corinthians 15:21-22  "21 For since by man came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
  22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be made >alive.").
Just as Jesus was resurrected, our spirits will be reunited with our bodies, 'that they can die  no more..., never to be divided" (Alma 11:45).  This condition is called immortality.  All people who ever have lived will be resurrected, "both old and young, both bond and free, both male and female, both the wicked and the righteous" (Alma 11:44)."


Discussion

Remember the glove allegory?  Just as the hand being removed from the glove represented dying, the hand reentering the glove is like our spirit reentering our resurrected body, only once resurrected they will never again be separated."



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Moroni 10:4-5
  "4 And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost.
  5 And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things."

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