Christianity teaches that the body as well as the soul is redeemed by
the Lord Jesus Christ, "the Saviour of the body."[228] We are called to
glorify God in our bodies, which are temples of the Holy Ghost, and we
must give account for the deeds done in and through the body, as well as
for those sins which are rather of the mind and will than of the body.
The body will be raised and will be judged. God will bring to light all
hidden things--actions forgotten by ourselves, deeds of which the world
knows nothing, as well as those which memory retains and the world knows
of. Before that "great and notable day" our bodies as well as our souls
must have been purged, else we shall never see God. The bodies of the
unjust will rise; but theirs will be resurrection to shame and
everlasting contempt.

It is fitting that reward or punishment should be the portion of the
same souls and bodies that have been faithful or unfaithful. Christ rose
in the same body as He had before His death, and so shall we. How this
is to be accomplished we cannot tell, but with God all things are
possible, and faith rests with confidence in His power and in His Word.
"We wait for a Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ: who shall fashion anew
the body of our humiliation, that it may be conformed to the body of his
glory."[229] While the body is the same as that in which the soul
tabernacled, it will undergo transformation. Christ will renew the
bodily as well as the spiritual nature of His people. Every part of
their being will be transformed, and their bodies, like Christ's, will
be spiritual bodies. We are to be sanctified wholly; our whole spirit
and soul and body preserved blameless unto His coming.[230] In this
present life the body builds up a character which it will retain
throughout eternity. Every act we do affects it, not for the time only,
but for ever. The lost soul will assume the polluted body, and while it