The Resurrection of the Dead is a central pillar of Christianity.
If you have not studied it properly I suggest you take time out, lest you fall
further into heresy.
So to recap:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 ..............and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Corinthians 15: 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
Paul is telling us that all are resurrected, good and bad.
John 5 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
This stands to reason - whatever form an eternal punishment takes, it can only be eternal if we are eternal.
Our resurrected bodies are our present bodies, except eternal. Pure and simple.
We are raised from the dead because we are raised up from the earth, from a place of decay,
to a place without decay. To argue otherwise is gross heresy, and belies Christ's victory over death.
Regarding 2 Corinthians 5, which you have tripped up on.
5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
What Paul is saying is that our physical bodies are fashioned after an eternal body, [we are made in God's eternal image],
so that even if our physical body could be destroyed, the eternal body remains in heaven.
But this is why he uses the passive aorist subjunctive here, it is to show that this is actually a hypothetical idea, as our physical bodies simply cannot be dissolved/demolished, as our physical body cannot be detached from our eternal body.
Regarding the mechanics of God raising up dust, dead bones, etc back to its living state, that is simply what God can do.
And the overall point Paul is making here is that our physical bodies were designed originally to be eternal.
That is to say, the ultimate goal of God is for us to be in eternal physical bodies.
If you have not studied it properly I suggest you take time out, lest you fall
further into heresy.
So to recap:
1 Thessalonians 4:16 ..............and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
1 Corinthians 15: 42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
Paul is telling us that all are resurrected, good and bad.
John 5 29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
This stands to reason - whatever form an eternal punishment takes, it can only be eternal if we are eternal.
Our resurrected bodies are our present bodies, except eternal. Pure and simple.
We are raised from the dead because we are raised up from the earth, from a place of decay,
to a place without decay. To argue otherwise is gross heresy, and belies Christ's victory over death.
Regarding 2 Corinthians 5, which you have tripped up on.
5 For we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle were dissolved, we have a building of God, an house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens.2 For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:
3 If so be that being clothed we shall not be found naked.4 For we that are in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we would be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be swallowed up of life.5 Now he that hath wrought us for the selfsame thing is God, who also hath given unto us the earnest of the Spirit 6 Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:
What Paul is saying is that our physical bodies are fashioned after an eternal body, [we are made in God's eternal image],
so that even if our physical body could be destroyed, the eternal body remains in heaven.
But this is why he uses the passive aorist subjunctive here, it is to show that this is actually a hypothetical idea, as our physical bodies simply cannot be dissolved/demolished, as our physical body cannot be detached from our eternal body.
Regarding the mechanics of God raising up dust, dead bones, etc back to its living state, that is simply what God can do.
And the overall point Paul is making here is that our physical bodies were designed originally to be eternal.
That is to say, the ultimate goal of God is for us to be in eternal physical bodies.
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