Thankful For A Body of Flesh And Bone

BODY

See also Death, Physical; Mortal, Mortality; Resurrection; Soul.

     The mortal, physical structure of flesh and bones created in God’s image that is combined with a spirit to make up a living person. The physical bodies of all men and women will be reunited eternally with their spirits in the resurrection. The scriptures sometimes refer to a body and spirit joined together as a soul (Gen. 2:7; D&C 88:15;Moses 3:7, 9, 19; Abr. 5:7).

     The Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, Gen. 2:7 (Moses 3:7).

     Handle me and see, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, Luke 24:39

     I discipline my body and bring it into subjection, 1 Cor. 9:27

     There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body, 1 Cor. 15:44

     The body without the spirit is dead, James 2:26

     The mortal body will be raised as an immortal body, Alma 11:43–45

     Every part of the body shall be restored, Alma 41:2

     Jesus showed his resurrected body to the Nephites, 3 Ne. 10:18–19, 3 Ne. 11:13–15

     The Father has a body of flesh and bones as tangible as man’s; the Son also, D&C 130:22

     God created male and female in the image of his own body, Moses 6:9 (Gen. 9:6).

Your body is a temple, a gift from God!