Hello
@Fullness of the Gentiles, there is nothing wrong with your long post. There is nothing wrong with any of the scriptures you have posted here either. With sharing all of this, could you write a quick overview in a paragraph of what it is you believe from your view of scripture?
Have shared my view and believe that all people will be receiving a spiritual body; either one equipped to dwell in the Kingdom of God, and one for those without faith who rejected truth not so well equipped to dwell in the kingdom so they are placed outside of the kingdom.
When it comes to resurrection will point you to 1 Corinthians 15 would be my stand and view.
Thank you for your time and consideration, am going to be leaving here momentarily.
With love in Christ,
Matthew G.
I believe you already are spiritually alive, if you are in Christ (Genesis 2:7; John 3:3-8). I believe people wrongly place emphasis on the word
soul instead of on the word
living in Genesis 2:7. I believe it is by your spirit, which is
born from above when you are born of the Spirit of Christ, that you are
in Christ and Christ is in you, therefore your spirit remains in Christ when your
body dies, and you wait for the
bodily resurrection of the dead, in the day your
body is raised a spiritual
body. I don't believe this
bodily resurrection (which is referred to in 1 Corinthians 15 and in many other passages and verses in the New Testament) is referring to "
being given a spirit".
Christ is your Life. You
already have life in Christ = you
already have the
spirit you are referring to, because you have already been spiritually
born of the Spirit of Christ (John 3:3-8).
So I believe that
those who die in Christ go to be with Christ, and wait for
the resurrection of the body which was
sown in corruption but is raised incorruptible, sown as flesh-and-blood body but raised a spiritual body (not a spirit, because if you are in Christ you already have a spirit which was born of the Spirit of Christ).
Those who are
not in Christ when they die is another (lengthy) subject, and I saw someone else in this thread already mentioning
the fact that neither the word "hell"
nor our concept of "hell" is ever mentioned in the Greek. What is mentioned in the New Testament is
hades, tartaroo, and
gehenna - gehenna being a metaphor or symbol for eternal damnation, tartaroo being the lowest abyss in hades (also a prison in hades), and
hades being the word which the Greek Septuagint uses to translate the Hebrew word
sheol in the Old Testament (each time), which is the same word describing the place where Christ descended to when He died, before He rose again. It's
also called "under the earth" in the Revelation.
From what you said, it sounded to me like maybe you are thinking of an eternal separation of
body and soul after death, or that the spiritual
body mentioned in 1 Corinthians 15 is referring to
spirit (only), instead of to a changed body?