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To: Hank Kerchief
This body of skin will never rise. But the spiritual man that is now alive clothing us (2 Cor 5:4), after Christ returned,(1 Cor 15:51-56) will go to be with the Lord when this seed is planted (1 Cor 15:35-36).

The resurrection was one of the spirit body. Not the flesh (skin).

The dead flesh (skin) will never rise but Christ's did. Why?
Because it could not be held by the pains of death due to His sinlessness and His nature (not of Adam's seed).
14 posted on 04/10/2002 4:16:54 PM PDT by nate4one
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To: nate4one
This body of skin will never rise. But the spiritual man that is now alive clothing us (2 Cor 5:4), after Christ returned,(1 Cor 15:51-56) will go to be with the Lord when this seed is planted (1 Cor 15:35-36).

The resurrection was one of the spirit body. Not the flesh (skin).

The dead flesh (skin) will never rise but Christ's did. Why? Because it could not be held by the pains of death due to His sinlessness and His nature (not of Adam's seed).

What is a "spirit body?" Does it have fingers, eyes, tongues? Is it a body, but without skin? (Yuck!) These are serious question, by the way. The Bible specifically speaks of these things, not as metaphores, belonging to people after death.

But, it doesn't really matter. God anticipated this absurd viewpoint. The resurrection of the body is a real fleshly, skin-and-all body.

Job 19:26 And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.

By the way, "The dead flesh (skin) will never rise but Christ's did. Why? Because it could not be held by the pains of death due to His sinlessness and His nature (not of Adam's seed)." Now are you right or is the writer of Hebrews right?

Heb. 2:14-17 Forasmuch then as the children are partakers of flesh and blood, he also himself likewise took part of the same; that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; And deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage. For verily he took not on him the nature of angels; but he took on him the seed of Abraham. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren, that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people.

Now Jesus either was born of the seed of Abraham (and therefore Adam) or He wasn't. He did have the same nature (and not that of angels) or he didn't. He either was made like us in all things or he wasn't.

I'll go with the writer of Hebrews.

Jesus had exactly the same kind of physical nature (flesh, blood, and skin) as we have, or the Bible is a big sham. If he had not had the same kind of physical body as us, he could not have died. That's what He inherited from Adam, just as we do, mortality. Sin is not ascribed to the physical body of flesh, blood, and skin anywhere in the Bible. Flesh is sometimes used metaphorically for a source of temptation that leads to sin, but the meat, and blood, and all organs are only things, and no "thing" is sin, only choices and actions are sin.

Hank

16 posted on 04/10/2002 8:02:55 PM PDT by Hank Kerchief
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