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- Paul illustrates his point with a seed of grain that becomes a plant. Life exists in one form of the body before death and yet in another form after death. Death is necessary to resurrection; a seed decomposes when planted in the ground and then becomes a plant later. We cannot rise until we die.
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Meeting the objector's assumption that either the raised body must be the same body, or that there could be no resurrection. Paul says: "What you sow is one body, and a different body arises;" yet the identity is preserved. Dissolution is not loss of identity.
- From St. Paul's Analogy of the Seed we Learn that the Body ...
On the Resurrection of the Flesh — Tertullian. Let us now...
- From St. Paul's Analogy of the Seed we Learn that the Body ...
42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever. 43 Our bodies are buried in brokenness, but they will be raised in glory.
On the Resurrection of the Flesh — Tertullian. Let us now see in what body he asserts that the dead will come. And with a felicitous sally he proceeds at once to illustrate the point, as if an objector had plied him with some such question.
In the first refutatio Paul showed the unacceptable consequences of denying the very notion of resurrection and thereby also denying the resurrection of Christ. Here he exposes claims that the future resurrection of the “body” is unintelligible and unbelievable as indefensible and untenable.
In a manner similar to this, the body will be raised; and the illustration of Paul meets all the difficulties about the fact of the resurrection. It cannot be shown that one is more difficult than the other; and as the facts of vegetation are constantly passing before our eyes, we ought not to deem it strange if similar facts shall take place ...
Feb 6, 2003 · Paul illustrates his point with a seed of grain that becomes a plant. Life exists in one form of the body before death and yet in another form after death. Death is necessary to resurrection; a seed decomposes when planted in the ground and then becomes a plant later.
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In short, these critics picture something inferior to a living, breathing body that once flourished before death. Instead, Paul is using the metaphor of planting a seed to show that the resurrected body is the ideal version, and the point of the process.
