1. Man consists of soul and body.
2. The soul of man is naturally immortal.
3. The only satisfactory proof of this immortality is the resurrection of Christ.
4. Christ's resurrection consisted in his return to earth in the same body as that with which he died, though glorified.
5. Our resurrection will consist in our taking again the same bodies which we have now, glorified if we are Christians, but degraded if we are not.
On the other hand, those views which incline towards rationalism and spiritualism agree in part with these statements, and in part differ; thus:—
1. They usually agree with Orthodoxy in believing man to consist of soul and body.
2. They also agree in believing the soul of man naturally immortal.
3. They differ from Orthodoxy in thinking the proof of immortality to be found in human consciousness, not at all in the resurrection of Jesus.