Ok, I admit that was a clickbait title. But stay with me here and you’ll see what I mean.
We are spirit beings, God breathed living creatures made in His image and likeness. But we are even more than that because of the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ. We are now part of the new creation.
Humanity needed the cross. But it did not end there. He is risen. (Hallelujah!). But His resurrection was not a return to the physical life he had lived for thirty four earth years. It was a genesis of a new creation. He is the firstborn from the dead! Lazarus, the widow’s son, and others, were returned to physical, earth life.
Jesus, however, entered into a newness of life that not only is imperishable. But it is the same life in which we participate.“Therefore we have been buried with Him through baptism into death, so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, so we too may walk in newness of life.” Romans 6:4
Staggering, right? He didn’t “come back to life”. He inaugurated a whole new life! And He brought us with Him.