Why do Christians speak of the Resurrection, and Jesus, as two different things?

Jesus said "I am the resurrection and the life" to the sisters of Lazarus, whom He was about to raise from the dead. However, you must remember that there is also a 'general' resurrection' after which everybody will face judgment ("Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake, some to everlasting life and others to shame and everlasting contempt." Daniel 12)

Although these are resurrected, they do not share in the salvation of Jesus. So when Jesus spoke of being the resurrection and the life, He was probably not talking about having to die first. There is salvation and the there is resurrection. Without salvation, you will not have a happy resurrection.

Some Greeks thought that Paul was speaking of two different deities (Jesus and 'Anastasia', the Greek for Resurrection) in Acts. Again, this was a misunderstanding. Without Jesus there is no resurrection to eternal life, only to eternal death.

Finally, Jesus Himself spoke of coming on the clouds of glory, when He was ordered to speak the truth at His trial. And when He ascended into Heaven, the angels who stood by the disciples watching Jesus leave said "Men of Galilee, why do you stand here staring into space...? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into Heaven, will come back in the same way you have seen Him go into Heaven." (Acts 1.)

Please check these verses for yourself to be sure that I am not mis-stating things.

When Adam sinned in the garden, all the way back in Genesis chapter 3, God told him that he would died. But he lived another 930 years after that. The death he suffered at the time of his sin was NOT a death of his body, but a death of the spirit within him. It was cut off from the life of God immediately by his sin.

The Bible teaches that every person since then has been born with a dead spirit. That is why they have a desire to sin, to war, to steal, etc. People have to teach children to be good. Nobody has to teach them to be bad - they do that naturally.

When Jesus spoke of Himself as the Resurrection, He was speaking first of a resurrection of the spirit. He is the one who can give life back to a human's soul by reuniting it with God. This is also referred to as being born again. A person can not go back into their mother's womb and be born a second time. But Jesus said that they can be reborn by the Spirit of God giving life to their spirit (Read the gospel of John chapter 3).

When a person dies, it is not their lifestyle, their good works, their bad works, they way they treated people that determine heaven or hell, but whether their spirit is alive. If they have been reborn, then they have a living spirit that is able to go to heaven. If not...

The Bible also promises that someday there will be a resurrection of the physical body, but transformed so that it never dies, gets sicks, is injured, etc. But that is an event somewhere in the future when Christ returns.

You have lack of understanding. When we are born again our old spirit is washed away (which is that which is in the world)and we are made clean with a renewed spirit (which is in Christ Jesus) we have direct access to God the Holy spirit. you are right Jesus is the light and the ressurection the one and the same.

Sorry your logic is wrong.

John 11:24-26 (New International Version)

Martha answered, "I know he will rise again in the resurrection at the last day." Jesus said to her, "I am the resurrection and the life. He who believes in me will live, even though he dies; and whoever lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?"

Jesus (and Paul) always speaks of faith being active while you are alive never when you are dead.

Because the whole story is a tissue of lies and does not match in any way. It also does not make any sense and does not follow Logic or the laws of Nature. The whole of Christianity is one big con operation in order to control people, their minds and their behaviour. In the process religious organisations make also lots of money.

If we're still alive when Jesus returns will will meet Him in the air.

Jesus is the resurrection and the life.

Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Joh 11:18 Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:

Joh 11:19 And many of the Jews came to Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning their brother.

Joh 11:20 Then Martha, as soon as she heard that Jesus was coming, went and met him: but Mary sat still in the house.

Joh 11:21 Then said Martha unto Jesus, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Joh 11:22 But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

Joh 11:23 Jesus saith unto her, Thy brother shall rise again.

Joh 11:24 Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Joh 11:25 Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

Joh 11:26 And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never die. Believest thou this?

Joh 11:27 She saith unto him, Yea, Lord: I believe that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, which should come into the world.

Joh 11:28 And when she had so said, she went her way, and called Mary her sister secretly, saying, The Master is come, and calleth for thee.

Joh 11:29 As soon as she heard that, she arose quickly, and came unto him.

Joh 11:30 Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

Joh 11:31 The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.

Joh 11:32 Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Joh 11:33 When Jesus therefore saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping which came with her, he groaned in the spirit, and was troubled,

Joh 11:34 And said, Where have ye laid him? They said unto him, Lord, come and see.

Joh 11:35 Jesus wept.

Joh 11:36 Then said the Jews, Behold how he loved him!

Joh 11:37 And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?

Joh 11:38 Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

Joh 11:39 Jesus said, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh: for he hath been dead four days.

Joh 11:40 Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou wouldest believe, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

Joh 11:41 Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

Joh 11:42 And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

Joh 11:43 And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth.

Joh 11:44 And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Joh 11:45 Then many of the Jews which came to Mary, and had seen the things which Jesus did, believed on him.

Joh 11:46 But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

From theses passages you can see how Jesus is the resurection and the life. He has the power to bring back the dead from the grave and to give back life to the dead, that they could live again.

Please continue to search the Bible for its truthfulness and not for just criticism.

well you have the revelations that they take how they want to, so that's that. but if jesus did come back he would just be committed to a mental hospital in a jiffy.