When Paul preached before the learned Greeks in Athens, he preached about Christ and the coming Resurrection.  The Greeks laughed at Paul’s ignorance.  They believed that every person had an immortal soul that was liberated from bodily bondage at death.  This immortal soul enjoyed eternal presence with the eternal oneness.  Yet Paul and centuries of Christians have believed that the hope of Christians that perish is not in some concept of the immortality of the soul, but rather in the resurrection of the body.  We confess that as our belief, our hope is in the Resurrection.