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Read I Corinthians 15:12-13 What does Paul use as his major reason for believing in the resurrection [of the body]?
dont have a body, you have a corpse; and if you dont have a body but a spirit, you have a spiritual corpse. The dualistic understanding of spirit + body comes from Greek culture, which would add mind to the mix. Mathematically, for a Greek person spirit + body + mind = being. But for a Hebrew person, it was much more like multiplication: body x spirit = being. Read Daniel 12:2-3, Ezekiel 37:1-12, and Isaiah 26:19 What are some of the clues to the Hebrew understanding of body and spirit?
So if Paul is using these defined terms to get across his understanding of the resurrection, we can read his resurrection passages with a little more clarity of where hes going with them. Read I Corinthians 15:35-41 Where do you find words like body, flesh and resurrected/raised?
Spiritual bodies
Some of the discrepancies between the idea of resurrection of the body and an amorphous resurrection of the spirit without a body, comes from the end of Pauls famous chapter on Resurrection. In I Corinthians 15:42-49, we see Paul talking about the difference between a natural body and a spiritual body. If you stop reading there, you could assume that what he means is that we are to be raised as spiritual beings which you would interpret (since philosophically youre more Greek than Hebrew) as without a real body. However, if you continue reading verses 50 to 55, you find that what Paul is actually saying is that a spiritual body is not a nonbody, but a body that has put on the imperishable. Again, the math is different. In the Greek/non-body understanding, you have subtraction going on: spiritual body = imperishable spirit body. However in the Hebrew bodied understanding, you have addition if not multiplication: spiritual body = body + imperishable spirit. Read I Corinthians 15:42-55 What does this passage say about what our resurrection body will and will not be like?
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