Abstract
That mortal creatures die is a universal truth of organic life; they also reproduce and after death become the material for new life. The most dedicated of materialists agrees that the dead rise up in the form of plants and animals that live on plants. The most vehement of atheists agrees with Paul in Corinthians 15 that seeds buried in the ground take on new bodies as shafts of wheat. Paul went on to interpret these teachings at the heart of the mysteries of Demeter in a new way. It was not that the dead bodies of Christians would become the joyful “first fruits” of next year’s harvest; they would literally stand up with new bodies ready for a second life in heaven. He based this expectation on what he had fervently come to believe. A dead man had bodily risen from the dead, and his faithful followers could do the same.
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