The Creed is chiefly concerned with bringing out the significance of our life here on earth, for God is our Creator, Savior, and Sanctifier so that we may be His ambassadors in this world. The end-goal of the Creed is: “We look for the resurrection of the dead.”
The Word of God assumed our body in order to restore its dignity, and the Holy Spirit fashions from our body a temple for God to dwell in; for on the great day of the Lord the body will rise from the dead and share the glory of the soul. The Holy Bible affirms that the resurrection of the Lord Christ occurred and confirms that the tomb was empty. What it does not explain is just how the resurrection occurred. The apostle Paul makes it clear that the Lord Christ is the first of those who will rise from the dead, and that our body is like a seed that is buried and then grows into a fruitful tree. No one can see, just by looking at the seed that is buried, an image of the tree that will grow from it. He also says that this mortal body must put on immortality in Christ Jesus. The apostle Paul calls this “a mystery” (1 Cor. 15:51): “we shall all be changed—in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
338 E.g., St. Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Book of Psalms 56.18 (NPNF I/8:225).
339 St. Isaac the Syrian, Mystic Treatises by Isaac of Nineveh Homily , trans., A. J. Wensinck, (Amsterdam: Koninklijke Akademie van Wetenschappen, 1923) 50: p. 231.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed” (1 Cor. 15:51–52).
On the great day of the Lord the faithful will rise because they are members in the one body of Christ. Here we see the depth of Christ’s love for humanity as His heavenly bride and body.