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To: count-your-change

No. It is the same body we now have.


4,664 posted on 01/06/2013 1:05:56 PM PST by narses
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To: narses

The same body.....with missing limbs? What of those turned to dust? Those Chistians burned to a crisp in Roman times?

The very quote you made says those bound for heaven will not have a fleshly body, but a spiritual one, not one of flesh and blood.


4,673 posted on 01/06/2013 1:29:11 PM PST by count-your-change (You don't have to be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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To: narses; count-your-change
No. It is the same body we now have.

It can't be as this body is corrupted by sin and is perishable. It cannot be in the presence of a holy God.

The verses you posted actually prove you wrong.

1 Corinthians 15:42-54 42 So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.

45 Thus it is written, “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But 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. 48 As 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. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

50 I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, 52 in 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.

53 For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When 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?”

God isn't just reforming old bodies, He's replacing them with new bodies which do not sin, can not sin, are not corrupted with and by sin, bodies which can handle being in the presence of a holy God.

Who in their right mind would want to be stuck with their old body for eternity anyway? Count me out of that one. I can't wait for the new model.

4,704 posted on 01/06/2013 2:39:30 PM PST 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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