OC | Question 56 & 57

56. How does “the resurrection of the body” comfort you? 

Not only my soul will be taken immediately after this life to Christ its head,166 but even my very flesh, raised by the power of Christ, will be reunited with my soul and made like Christ’s glorious body.167

^ 166. Luke 23:43; Phil. 1:21-23hn 10:14-16; Acts 20:28; Rom. 10:14-17; Col. 1:18 
^ 167. 1 Cor. 15:20, 42-46, 54; Phil. 3:21; 1 John 3:2

57. How does the article concerning “life everlasting” comfort you? 

Even as I already now experience in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, 168 so after this life I will have perfect blessedness such as no eye has seen, no ear has heard, no human heart has ever imagined: a blessedness in which to praise God eternally. 

^ 168. Rom. 14:17 
^ 168.