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- In Corinthians, Paul uses the rhetorical device of oxymoron in modifying the term body by “spiritual.” The oxymoron expresses the ineffability of Paul's experience of the Risen Christ, which for him is something beyond precise description.
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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.
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Mar 4, 2010 · A spiritual body is first and foremost a real body or it would not qualify to be called a body. Paul could have simply said, “It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spirit,” if that were the case.
Jul 30, 2023 · Paul’s extended discourse in 1 Corinthians 15 on the believer’s transformation from a “natural body” (ψυχικὸς σῶμα) to a “spiritual body” (πνευματικός σῶμα) instructs us then in envisioning the intersection of three crucial theological threads—creation, redemption, and eschatology.
Feb 24, 2019 · Is that a contradiction, like an oxymoron? Back in the old days, in church, we used to say, “I believe in the Holy Ghost,” instead of “I believe in the Holy Spirit.” That is because, in the Bible, the word for both “ghost” and “spirit” is really the same word.
Nov 16, 2015 · In Corinthians, Paul uses the rhetorical device of oxymoron in modifying the term body by “spiritual.” The oxymoron expresses the ineffability of Paul's experience of the Risen Christ, which for him is something beyond precise description.
- Brian Schmisek
A man’s organism is sown (i.e., is born into this world) a natural body; it is raised (through and by death) a spiritual body. The body which we have here on earth is suited with a marvellous detail of adaptability to the life, physical and intellectual, amid which we are placed, and of which we form a part.
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44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. ( A ) If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being” [ a ] ; ( B ) the last Adam, ( C ) a life-giving spirit.
