"What happens to you when you die, Dad?" "Of course, son, if you believe in God, you go up to heaven where you will be with God and the angels."

Does such a response sound familiar to you? Is not this the answer with which most of us were raised: That when you die, your soul, free from the body, will go to heaven. Is that what happens? Is that what you all think? Do not despair. I shall not call for a show of hands, but I do want you to think about your answer to the question of what we will be like after we have died (in faith). "And I believe in the resurrection of the body, and the life everlasting. Amen."

The resurrection of the body. Week after week you and I recite the creed. We say that we and all Christians believe in a resurrection of the body. We are not proclaiming the idea of a s…