Heidelberg Catechism: What comfort does the “resurrection of the body” give you?


LORD’S DAY 22

57. What comfort does the “resurrection of the body” give you?

That not only my soul, after this life, shall be immediately taken up to Christ my Head;1 but also that this my body, raised by the power of Christ, shall again be united with my soul, and made like Christ’s glorious body.2

1 Lk 16:22, 23:43; Php 1:21-23; 2 Job 19:25-26; 1 Cor 15:20, 42-46, 54; Php 3:21; 1 Jn 3:2

58. What comfort do you receive from the article about the “life everlasting?”

That, as I now already feel in my heart the beginning of eternal joy,1 I shall after this life possess complete blessedness, such as eye has not seen, nor ear heard, neither has entered into the heart of man; in which to praise God forever.2

1 Jn 17:3; Rom 14:17; 2 Cor 5:2-3; 2 Jn 17:24; 1 Cor 2:9