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Watch for the deliberate misquote in the passage below.
● 1Cor 15:42-44 . . So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in
corruption, it is raised up in incorruption. It is sown in dishonor, it is raised
up in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised up in power. It is sown a
physical body, it is raised up a spirit body. If there is a physical body, there
is also a spirit one.
Catch the misquote? Well; there is no mention of a spirit body in that
passage. The actual word is "spiritual".
The Greek word translated "spiritual" is ambiguous. It doesn't necessarily
refer to the characteristics of thin air. Below is a list of spiritual things that
bear absolutely no resemblance whatsoever to the bodily chemistry of an
angel or a demon.
Spiritual gifts (Rom 1:11)
Spiritual law (Rom 7:14)
Spiritual things (Rom 15:27)
Spiritual people (1Cor 2:15)
Spiritual nourishment (1Cor 10:3)
Spiritual water (1Cor 10:4)
Spiritual rock (1Cor 10:4)
Spiritual counselors (Gal 6:1)
Spiritual blessings (Eph 1:3)
Spiritual music (Eph 5:19)
Spiritual understanding (Col 1:9)
Spiritual housing (1Pet 2:5)
Spiritual sacrifices (1Pet 2:5)
It's apparently been decided, and chipped in stone, by a number of
theologians that the spiritual body has to be composed of spirit because of
the passage below.
● 1Cor 15:50 . . This I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit
God’s kingdom, (see post No.98)
But spirit isn't necessarily the default material when flesh and blood are
ruled out.
In my opinion if God was intelligent enough, and creative enough, to invent
all the natural atomic elements on the periodic table with which to fabricate
the current cosmos with all of its natural forms of life, matter, and energy;
then it shouldn't be all that difficult for Him to produce yet another set of
atomic elements with which to fabricate an unnatural body-- i.e. a superman
--composed of materials heretofore unknown by the likes of Albert Einstein,
J.Robert Oppenheimer, Carl Sagan, and Stephen Hawking.
There are some other things in addition to immortality that are known about
the spiritual body.
1) The spiritual body is patterned after Christ's glorified body.
● Phil 3:20-21 . .Our citizenship is in heaven. And we eagerly await a savior
from there, the Lord Jesus Christ, who, by the power that enables him to
bring everything under his control, will transform our lowly bodies so that
they will be like his glorious body.
2) The spiritual body is fully human.
● Heb 2:5-8 . . For it is not to angels that he has subjected the inhabited
earth to come,d about which we are speaking. But a certain witness has
given proof somewhere, saying: “What is man that you keep him in mind, or
the son of man that you take care of him? You made him a little lower than
angels; with glory and honor you crowned him, and appointed him over the
works of your hands. All things you subjected under his feet.” For in that he
subjected all things to him God left nothing that is not subject to him. Now,
though, we do not yet see all things in subjection to him;
● Heb 5:1-6 . . For every high priest taken from among men is appointed in
behalf of men over the things pertaining to God
3) The spiritual body is capable of dining upon ordinary foods and
beverages.
● Matt 26:29 . . I tell you: I will not drink of this fruit of the vine from now
on until that day when I drink it anew with you in my Father's kingdom.
● Luke 22:15-16 . . I have eagerly desired to eat this Passover with you
before I suffer. For I tell you: I will not eat it again until it finds fulfillment in
the kingdom of God.
● Luke 22:28-29 . . However, you are the ones that have stuck with me in
my trials; and I make a covenant with you, just as my Father has made a
covenant with me, for a kingdom, that you may eat and drink at my table in
my kingdom,
4) The spiritual body is visible to the naked eye.
● Acts 1:11 . . Men of Galilee, why do you stand looking into the sky? This
Jesus, who has been taken up from you into heaven, will come in just the
same way as you have watched him go into heaven.
● 1John 3:2 . .We shall see him just as he is.
● Rev 1:7 . . Behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see
him, even those who pierced him
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