BTW
This is what those scriptures you mentioned state:
But someone may ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” [SUP]
36 [/SUP]How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. [SUP]
37 [/SUP]When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. [SUP]
38 [/SUP]But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. [SUP]
39 [/SUP]All flesh is not the same: Men have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. [SUP]
40 [/SUP]
There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. [SUP]
41 [/SUP]The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. [SUP]
42 [/SUP]So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; [SUP]
43 [/SUP]it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; [SUP]
44 [/SUP]
it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. [SUP]
45 [/SUP]So it is written: “
The first man Adam became a living being”[SUP][e][/SUP]; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. [SUP]
46 [/SUP]
The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual.[SUP]
47 [/SUP]The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. [SUP]
48 [/SUP]As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. [SUP]
49 [/SUP]
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we[SUP][f][/SUP] bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
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50 [/SUP]I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we[SUP][f][/SUP] bear the likeness of the man from heaven.
The above is conclusive. Now we are born in the likeness of the earthly man. THEN we will bear the likeness of the man from Heaven. And the man from Heaven does not Have a Physical body.
Let's consider this in the light of Php 1:23:
"the Lord Jesus Christ. . .will transform our lowly (vile, sinful) bodies so that they will be like his glorious body," i.e., his resurrection body.
That is the "likeness" to which Paul is referring in 1Co 15:49.
In 1Co 15:35-54, Paul is contrasting the natural body with the spiritual
body received from the two Adams (vv. 21-22).
The first Adam had a
natural body of the dust of the ground, and that is the natural body we receive.
The last Adam, the
man Jesus Christ, is the life-giving spirit who at the resurrection will give his redeemed people a
spiritual body, physical, yet imperishable, without corruption and fit to live with God forever.
We
received earthly,
natural bodies in the likeness of the earthly
man, Adam.
At the resurrection we will
receive glorified
spiritual bodies in the likeness of the resurrected spritual
body of the
man who was the second Adam.
The contrast is between the
bodies of
both Adams, it's not between the
body of the first Adam, and the
spirit of the last Adam.
Paul is clearly dealing with the physical natural sinful body recieved from the first Adam, and the physical spiritual
body in the image of the second Adam's resurrected body received from Christ at our resurrection.
In the midst of his presentation on the two kinds of bodies received from the two Adam's, he does not stop in v 50 to disclaim physical bodies ("flesh and blood") in heaven.
Rather, in v. 50 he is
continuing on with his contrast between the
natural sinful "flesh and blood" (body) we received from the first Adam, and the
spiritual physically transformed glorious (without sin) body we will receive from the second Adam, Christ, at the resurrection.
He is pointing out that the natural sinful "flesh and blood" body we received from the first Adam cannot inherit the kingdom of God, he is saying that God's redeemed people must have newly organized, imperishable
bodies (vv. 35-44) like that of the second Adam, in order to live with him.
That is confirmed in Php 1:23, above.
Now unless you can give me plain scripture that states we will have 'physical bodies' in Heaven.
Not all of God's truth is stated in direct simple English sentences.
This stuff was written 2,000 years ago. . .in Greek, and will not always translate into simple and direct English sentences.
We have to get over that.
Regarding the plain Scriptures:
1)
Lk 22:69;
Eph 1:20;
Col 3:1 - How is the Son of Man
seated at the right hand of God without a body "to seat"?
2)
Php 1:23 - It is its clear import, above.
3)
1Co 15:52-54 - And then there is the anomoly of those billions of physical resurrected glorified
spiritual bodies like Christ's which, acccording to you, would have no destiny.
The language of the NT regarding Christ's ascension is everywhere predicated on a physical body.
Your meaning of "flesh and blood" in 1Co 15:50, as the anatomical composition of the human body rather than the natural sinful body, puts you in disagreement with all the other Scriptures which are predicated on glorified physical
bodies in heaven.