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This is the source of your argument - "take it from me." You deny the first resurrection of Christ. That is heresy.

Not true. Your spirit is made alive by the Holy Spirit to the things of God thus producing a new birth. You have avoided all the biblical evidence of such above. You have to.

Lol. Show your evidence if you have it.

Check posts #240 & 241 above that refute this.

No one denies the new birth. Hello! But the means He accomplishes the new birth is by spiritual resurrection. Read the avoided posts above.

How is a human brought from death to life?

I am not Preterist. The baptism of the Holy Spirit is power for service. The disciples were born again of the Spirit before Pentecost. Check John 3. I have showed multiple proof that the "Church" has been ongoing for centuries even before the first Advent. You have no rebuttal for that. That is...

Were you spiritually dead before salvation?

I give you the different passages that teach spiritual resurrection, and you avoided them all. You have to. They destroy your argument. All you have now is avoidance and insults.

The word "first" in 1 Thess 4 is just differentiating between the raising of the dead and the living. That is it! The future resurrection is not the first resurrection. There has already been a resurrection. Jesus has already conquered the grave. If you deny that you are a heretic.

Avoidance and insults do nothing to promote your argument.

I refer you back to the multiple passages that you have ducked around above in order to sustain your viewpoint.

Where does he mention "the first resurrection" in 2 Timothy 2:16-18? Nowhere. You force it into the text. That is simply in your mind. I quoted the proof that Jesus was "the first resurrection." You reject that. That is heresy!

Stop avoiding. Address the posts that teach spiritual resurrection.

Are you even reading what people are saying here? Who is saying that?

This is what is produced when people deny the physical resurrection of Jesus Christ. Heresy!

Exactly. But this first resurrection of Christ secured a dual resurrection for the believer - spiritual and physical. That is needed because we experience dual death through sin.

So, Jesus never defeated the grave. That is total heresy. Sad! Who is "the first that should rise" in Acts 26:23? Who is "the firstborn from the dead" in Colossians 1:18? Who is "the firstfruits of them that slept" in 1 Corinthians 15:20? Who is "first begotten of the dead" in Revelation 1:5...

Can you please read what I (and others) am writing instead of what you think? No one here is denying a future physical resurrection. You never even addressed the different Scriptures that teach spiritual resurrection in the NT. You are so stuck on your own train of thought.

Not so. I am showing you that spiritual resurrection precedes the physical resurrection of the just. That is what Scripture teaches. We all believe in the future physical resurrection when Jesus comes. Jesus taught in John 11:25, saying, “I am the resurrection [Gr. anastasis], and the life: he...