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We are not pure enough in the to see God. It’s Scriptural. You know, the stuff the Catholic claims it wrote. Were they wrong after all?

1 Corinthians 15:35-57

35But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” 36You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 38But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. 41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.

42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. 49Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.
Mystery and Victory
50I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. 53For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written:

“Death is swallowed up in victory.” 55 “O death, where is your victory?
O death, where is your sting?”

56The sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. 57But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.


1,030 posted on 08/26/2011 5:35:11 PM PDT by metmom (For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, & do not submit again to a yoke of slavery)
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To: metmom
But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

Not just thanks, but glory and honor and majesty be to our God because victory in Christ is the ONLY victory that exists for all mankind. There would be NO victory apart from him so it is only logical that through Jesus Christ, and him alone, is there victory over sin and its consequences. We have been redeemed from the curse of the law through Christ's shed blood because without it we would STILL be under the curse and doomed for eternity.

1,096 posted on 08/26/2011 8:38:31 PM PDT by boatbums ( God is ready to assume full responsibility for the life wholly yielded to Him.)
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To: metmom
We are not pure enough in the to see God. It’s Scriptural. You know, the stuff the Catholic claims it wrote. Were they wrong after all?

Nope. The theologically uninitiated and the amateur theologians who make all kinds of claims on this forum without Scriptural or Christian understanding are wrong. I have been privileged to have met a number of Christians with much greater understanding of God than I. I have also met a number of self proclaimed 'saved Christians' who have no more idea of salvation by Christ than my guinea pigs do.

1,299 posted on 08/29/2011 5:01:07 AM PDT by MarkBsnr (I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not move me to do so.)
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