The Risen Body

In the resurrection, each soul will be united with its own body. For in a real resurrection, that which falls is that which rises again. If the soul be not joined substantially with its own body, then there is not a resurrection, but an assuming of anew body.

The selfsame man who dies will rise again. For, by the resurrection, a man is to live again, not to be turned into someone else.

However, it is the soul that constitutes the material element of man as his living body and gives it its personal identity in the body-soul compound that we call a man. By uniting substantially with matter, the soul constitutes that matter as its own body, holding it in continuous identity, notwithstanding the flow and change of bodily particles all through life. Perhaps,in the risen body will be present some of the actual physical particles which the living body used at some stage of earthlylife.