1 Corinthians 15:42 So also is the rising again of the dead: it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; 43 it is sown in dishonour, 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; there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body;
>>Catholics Honor the deceased Person, and Persons to a Person have both a Soul and Body.<<
Isn't that what I said? They dig up and preserve the body that was sown in corruption. Not once in all of scripture are we taught to venerate a dead body.
>>and that person will have both a soul and body.<<
Not the corruptible body Catholics venerate.
There is a natural body and spiritual body, but it is the same person, one is pre resurrection, subject to pain and death, the other is transformed by Christ. Yet, same body. C
Not once are taught to not venerate dead bodies either. In fact, there is nothing of the sort. Clearly the Jews of Christ time revered Christ dead body as they anointed it and treated it with great care and dignity.
And as I noted in a post to eagleone, the early Church reading the same NT came to a different conclusion that you did with respect to your statement “Not once in all scripture are we taught to venerate a dead body”
Those links are clearly referenced to numerous different authoritative teachings, Scripture, Creeds, Church Fathers, Councils, etc.
And yes I read the passage, I just don’t think it refutes veneration of relics and honoring the dead.
You interprets it that way, I can find nobody before Luther, Calvin and Zwingli that shared your views save maybe the early Gnostics who rejected the Incarnation outright and thus did not believe in a resurrection of the body thus they would reject venerating or honoring the dead.