“The Flesh”—Physical Body and “The Flesh”—Sinful Nature

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Purity said:
What then of the spiritual body?

How shall it be fashioned?
We have to revert to the Biblical examples to understand that.

Christ said those of the resurrection are as the angels of God in Heaven (Matt.22:30). Genesis 18 and 19 give us more clues, as two of the three men that appeared at Abraham's tent door were the two angels that went to rescue Lot and his.

Hebrews 13:2 tells us to remember to be hospitable to strangers, because some have entertained angels and weren't aware that's what they were.

Paul called the spiritual body the "image of the heavenly" in 1 Cor.15. He said as we have borne the "image of the earthy" we shall also bear the "image of the heavenly".

In all Bible cases, angels appeared to flesh man with the image of man.

Early Christian art supplied the idea of angels with literal wings on their backs to make sure the viewer knew the difference between the characters in the painting. Common sense of Hebrews 13:2 reveals that if we can host an angel at table and not know they are an angel, it means they don't really have literal wings on their backs, at least not within our dimension on this earth.

To understand this better one must begin to understand God's Word about two different dimensions of existence, this earthy and the heavenly.


The following verse explains the first law of Thermodynamics, i.e., that material matter can neither be created nor destroyed...

Heb 11:3
3 Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear.
(KJV)


Our Heavenly Father is a separate Entity from His creation (thus Pantheism which believes the creation = God is false). Per the above verse material matter did not create itself, nor can it be created or destroyed by anyone except The Creator Himself, revealing He is not made up of material matter. This also reveals that this earthy dimension, which includes all that is seen in our dimension, is really a subset in God's reality, and not the original dimension of existence (what some philosophers call 'the first cause').

So why did God create this earthy dimension and the earth (i.e., universe)? For His pleasure all things were created (Rev.4:11).

Per Isaiah 45:18, God created this earth to be lived upon, to be inhabited. In final, that's exactly how it will be. He is going to live with us upon this earth (a cleansed earth) and we will be changed to the spiritual body which is OF... the dimension of first origin, His dimension of existence. That is 'how' we will no longer be subject to the earthly elements of heat, cold, etc., simply because the "spiritual body" is of a different dimension, although it can live upon a material earth.