gmurphy@raex.com wrote:
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> The supposed contrast between what I Cor.15 & the gospels on the
> resurrection isn't nearly as great as suggested here. OTOH the analogies
> Paul gives in vv.41-50 (coincidentally one of the daily lectionary readings
> for today) makes it clear that he's thinking of some continuity between the
> body that is "sown" and that which is resurrected. He is not talking about
> annihilation of the present body & repalcement of it by something else.
> If Jesus - & prospectively we - are not in some sense risen in "the same
> body" then WE aren't risen, plain & simple. Without my body I am not I.
Bad news. The body that comes nout of the ground is not the body which goes into the ground.
What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"[e]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. 47The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.
'You do not plant the body that will be' is pretty clear, despite 2,000 years of people claiming that the body that will be is the body that is planted.
Paul claims such a body will die. Now , it is pretty obvious that you can only be resurrected if you die, so Paul is emphasising that our current bodies will be dead, really dead, and God will give us a body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven.
Two bodies - first the natural body, made from the dust of the earth and then the spiritual body made from heaven.
Paul is not very clear, as he had nothing concrete to report (I am not saying here that the rexsurrected body was made from concrete) He had nothing but theory to work with. Quite hard to describe a spiritual body , one not made from flesh and blood , which cannot inherit the Kingdom of God.
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