Resurrection survey

A recent poll by Scripps Survey Research revealed that most people don't believe in the resurrection of the body.

Some 1,007 adults were interviewed by phone from Feb. 19 to Mar. 3 by the Scripps Survey Research Center at Ohio University and asked the question, "Do you believe that, after you die, your physical body will be resurrected someday?"” Results indicate that out of those interviewed only 36 percent replied "yes" to the question while 54 percent said they do not believe in the statement and 10 percent remained undecided.

According to the poll, 90 percent of Americans believe in God or a Supreme Being, with 65 percent indicating that they were "absolutely certain" that God exists. Seventy-two percent replied they believe in an afterlife with "“some sort of consciousness" with 47 percent of being absolutely certain of this.

The poll also found that half of those who attend church recently said they believe they will undergo a physical resurrection compared to a quarter of those who have not attended service recently.

The survey speaks volumes about biblical literacy and faith in the declarations of Scripture. Maybe it's time our churches get back to preaching and teaching the words of God rather than the musings of men:

Now if Christ is proclaimed as raised from the dead,
how can some of you say that there is no resurrection of the dead?
But if there is no resurrection of the dead, then not even Christ
has been raised.... And if Christ has not been raised,
your faith is futile and you are still in your sins....

But in fact Christ has been raised from the dead....
For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ
all shall be made alive.
1 Cor. 15:12-13, 17, 20, 22