The dead in Christ will be raised up in their ____.

• A. Spirits
• B. Souls
• C. Bodies
• D. Physical Bodies

Answer: (D)

The main idea here is the resurrection of the believer as a whole person—the body is not left behind or reduced to something non-material. The dead in Christ are raised with their physical bodies, though transformed and made immortal for eternal life. This emphasizes that the resurrection restores the entire person to a tangible, embodied existence, not just a spiritual essence. While Scripture speaks of a "spiritual body" in the sense of a body empowered by the Spirit, that terminology points to the glorified, living form rather than to an absence of material reality. So the phrase “physical bodies” best captures the view that the body itself is raised and renewed for eternity.