What then is the Resurrection of the dead from a Preterist perspective?
Preterism answers this question in a comprehensive manner, attempting to deal with the root problem affecting mankind, i.e. “spiritual death.” The problem introduced by Adam and Eve’s fall was a problem of “death” in that God specifically told them that they would die in the day they would eat from the tree. We know from the Biblical narrative that Adam and Even did not die in the day in which they ate from the tree, therefore we can conclude that the death they experienced was the separation from God, which they did experience in the day they ate from the tree. That separation is the death spoken of throughout the Bible in the context of salvation and deliverance from sin. Sin causes separation between man and God, and Christ restores us back into God’s presence. In the context of the Resurrection, this is the death which Christ dealt with at his Second Coming; that is how in Matthew 8:22 Jesus says “let the dead bury their own dead,” referring to those physically alive being spiritua
