NOTE..I wanted to entitle this RESURRECTION/VIVIFICATION, but "Simple" limits titles to 13 characters.  Why, I don't know?  But I'll contact them to find out.

What is the difference between resurrection and vivification?

The fact that there is  can first be determined by reason that they each are derived from two different Greek words.

Resurrection is defined as the action of bringing dead back to life.

One source even went so far as to say it should only be used to to show a mortal being brought back from the dead.

But I’ve heard the term used when “resurrecting” a project, plan, even a written piece that was “dead”, that was no longer considered feasible,  being brought back to “life”, because something ocurred that made the project feasible again.

Vivification is not solely concerned with the body, because it’s defined as the quality of  being active, animated, vigorous as well as endowing with life.

Plants and animals can be vivified, then as well as humans.

There is only One who has been resurrected from the dead and vivified.

That One, of course, was Jesus..not Jesus Christ.

He became the Christ following His resurrection and viivification.

Lazarus was brought back from death, but was he “resurrected”?

I think not, because he would probably have the same body, alive, but  a body  with all it’s attendant mortal frailties.

When Jesus was resurrected from death He possessed a different body..an imortal one.

One, defined by Paul in Corinthians, who says “We will be raised imperishable, and we shall all be changed..when the the perishable puts on the imperishable..the mortal puts on imortality”.

Paul also tells us that Jesus is the First Fruit..He was the first to undergo this transformation, from mortal to immortal  but others will follow.

But at that instant of resurrection, was He vivified?

Remember when Mary Magdalene, the first to see the Christ, tried to hold Him. He wouldn’t let her, and was told the reason was because  He had not ascended to the Father.

Why?

Why would He stop her from coming in contact with that body, when after returning from being with the Father,  He allowed Thomas to put his hand in His wounds?

We know that imediately at death, the spirit goes direct to God.

At resurrection is the process reversed?

Was it necesssry for Him to return to God to gain a vivified spirit?

It’s a possibility.

Resurrection is to the body as vivification is to the spirit, how and when these occur God only knows..paulnbob