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Jul 30, 2023 · The apostle Paul uses the seemingly paradoxical phrase “spiritual body” in 1 Corinthians 15 when explaining what will happen to believers’ bodies at the resurrection. In this same discourse, he also claims that there are many kinds of flesh, including a “heavenly flesh.”. These terms—“spiritual” and “body”—reflexively ...
- Sown Natural, Raised Spiritual: The (Nevertheless) Physical ...
Paul goes on to say, σπείρεται σῶμα ψυχικόν—“it is sown a...
- Sown Natural, Raised Spiritual: The (Nevertheless) Physical ...
Jul 1, 2022 · The term spiritual body seems to be an oxymoron. A basic point to be made, based on the term, is that the resurrection body cannot be wholly spiritual; otherwise, it could not be a “body.”. It is a human body, but there is something different about it, as Paul explains in context. Taking in the whole of 1 Corinthians 15, we have the ...
The Greek word that the NIV is translating - ἐπουράνιος - does not necessarily refer to the Heaven that is God's abode. Paul uses the same word in referring to celestial bodies (1 Corinthians 15:40). A better translation in this case might be "high places", as indicated in the King James Version.
Mar 4, 2010 · When Paul uses the term “spiritual body” (1 Corinthians 15:44), he is not talking about a body made of spirit, or an incorporeal body—there is no such thing. Body means corporeal: flesh and bones. The word spiritual here is an adjective describing body, not negating its meaning. A spiritual body is first and foremost a real body or it ...
- Paul’s Gospel and The Resurrection of Christ
- Concerning The Resurrection of The Dead
- Questions Concerning The Resurrection Body
15 Now I make known to you, brothers, the gospel which I proclaimed to you, which you have also received, in which you also stand, 2 by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose. 3 For I passed on to you as of first importance[a] what I also received, that Christ died for ...
12 Now if Christ is preached as raised up from the dead, how do some among you say that there is no resurrection of the dead? 13 But if there is no resurrection of the dead, Christ has not been raised either. 14 But if Christ has not been raised, then[b] our preaching is in vain, and your faith is in vain. 15 And also we are found to be false witne...
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what sort of body do they come?” 36 Foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And what you sow is not the body which it will become, but you sow the bare seed, whether perhaps of wheat or of some of the rest. 38 But God gives to it a body just as he wishes, and ...
Paul answers the questions by way of the Genesis creation narrative on the analogy of the seed (15:36–38) and the different kinds of earthly and heavenly bodies (15:39–44a), which prepares the way for another use of the Adam/Christ typology (cf. 15:22) that sets up the contrast between the natural body and the spiritual body (15:44b–49).
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Aug 3, 2020 · Paul goes on to say, σπείρεται σῶμα ψυχικόν—“it is sown a natural body” (v. 44). Therefore, it follows grammatically that what will “come to life” is the physical body that “is sown.” Indeed, the believer’s physical body is the subject throughout Paul’s series of contrasts in verses 42–44:
