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To: annalex
What you don't know from your mindless quoting is that "corruption" and "flesh" have a different connotation that what you imagine them to be. Go troll someplace else.

flesh
σάρξ
sarx

flesh (as stripped of the skin), that is, (strictly) the meat of an animal (as food), or (by extension) the body (as opposed to the soul (or spirit), or as the symbol of what is external, or as the means of kindred, or (by implication) human nature (with its frailties (physically or morally) and passions), or (specifically) a human being (as such): - carnal (-ly, + -ly minded), flesh ([-ly]).

corruption
φθορά
phthora

decay, that is, ruin (spontaneous or inflicted, literally or figuratively): - corruption, destroy, perish.

incorruption
ἀφθαρσία
aphtharsia

af-thar-see'-ah incorruptibility; generally unending existence; (figuratively) genuineness: - immortality, incorruption, sincerity.

Well, that's it in the Greek...Should we check the English to see if we get a connotation that's acceptable to you???

36 posted on 09/15/2006 5:46:09 PM PDT by Iscool
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To: Iscool

You are telling us words. I am quite good with Greek myself, but thanks.

Both "flesh" and "corruption" are used by the inspired authors primarily as references to the temptation, sin, and death as consequence of sin. None of your quotes are a physiology manual from which we are to deduce the fact that ordinarily, people experience physical death and their flesh decays. Nor does any Catholic dispute these facts of life.

Go troll someplace else.


37 posted on 09/15/2006 6:26:57 PM PDT by annalex
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