Ronald Nolette
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I care what Paul was inspired to write at 1 Corinthians 15:35-44. Because I know many people today have their personal views about life after death. Although I understand that these many people think their views are consistent with the scriptures I disagree that they are.
When someone dies, his body decomposes. But the One who created the universe from nothing can resurrect that person, giving him a suitable body. (Genesis 1:1; 2:7) Paul used an illustration to show that God would not need to bring back the same body. Think of “a bare grain,” or a plant “seed.” A seed of grain that is planted in the ground germinates and becomes a new plant. The resulting plant is quite different from the small seed. Paul used this comparison to show that our Creator can provide “a body just as it pleases him.” It's not that same seed that was planted but when resurrected that body that is resurrected isn't that same seed grain but resurrected a new body a spiritual body.
Paul noted at 1 Corinthians 15:39-41 that there is great diversity in creation. He said there are different fleshly bodies, such as cattle, birds, and fish. He stated that in the sky, we see differences between the sun and the moon. And he noted that “one star differs from another star in glory.” Yes, even if we may not discern it with the naked eye, there are what scientists call red giant stars, white dwarfs, and yellow stars, such as our sun. Paul also stated that “there are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies.” How so? Well, on earth, we have bodies of flesh, but in heaven there are spirit bodies, like the ones the angels have.
Paul said next: “So it is with the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised up in incorruption.” Of course, upon dying, the human body decays and returns to the dust. (Gen. 3:19) So how can it be that a body is “raised up in incorruption”? Paul was not speaking of a human who is resurrected to life on earth, such as those raised by Elijah, Elisha, and Jesus. Paul was referring to a person who is resurrected with a heavenly body, that is, “a spiritual one.”(1 Corinthians 15:42-44)
When Jesus walked the earth, he had a fleshly body. But when he was resurrected, he “became a life-giving spirit” and returned to heaven. Likewise, anointed Christians would be resurrected to spirit life. Paul explained: “Just as we have borne the image of the one made of dust, we will bear also the image of the heavenly one.”(1 Corinthians 15:45-49)
Paul was reaching the climax of his discussion of the resurrection. It is important to note that Jesus was not resurrected with a human body. Paul pointedly said: “Flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s Kingdom” in heaven. (1 Corinthians 15:50) The apostles and other anointed ones would not be resurrected to heaven with corruptible bodies of flesh and blood. Paul stressed that this resurrection still lay ahead; it was not something they would experience right after they died. By the time Paul wrote 1 Corinthians, some disciples had already “fallen asleep in death,” for example, the apostle James. (Acts 12:1, 2) Other apostles and anointed ones would yet fall “asleep in death.”(1 Corinthians 15:6)
Both Jesus and Paul pointed forward to a special time in history, Christ’s second presence. That presence would be marked by wars, earthquakes, pestilences, and other global developments. Paul pointed out that “the presence of the Lord” would also be a time of resurrection for anointed Christians who had “fallen asleep in death.”(1 Thessalonians 4:14-16; 1 Corinthians 15:23)
Anointed ones who today finish their earthly course are instantly raised to life in the heavens. This is confirmed by Paul’s words recorded at 1 Corinthians 15:51, 52: “We will not all fall asleep in death, but we will all be changed, in a moment, in the blink of an eye, during the last trumpet.” These words of Paul are now undergoing fulfillment! Upon their resurrection, these brothers of Christ will have complete joy; they will “always be with the Lord.”(1 Thessalonians 4:17)
Well you follow the Watchtower indoctrination well.
You freely accept retranslating Scripture to fit Watchtower doctrine, instead of retranslating doctrine to fit Scripture as we are commanded to do.
- But let us look at the Words of Jesus again.
King James Version
18 Then answered the Jews and said unto him, What sign shewest thou unto us, seeing that thou doest these things?
19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
21 But he spake of the temple of his body.
22 When therefore he was risen from the dead, his disciples remembered that he had said this unto them; and they believed the scripture, and the word which Jesus had said.
Jesus said "Destroy this temple" and in three days I will raise this temple.
So what was destroyed of jesus? His spirit? NO NO NO!!!! HIs physical body! He wasn't destroyed as an invisible spirit creature. He was destroyed in a physical body.
Jesus told the pharisees, kill this body, and in three days I will raise this body from the dead!
Accept teh word of God.
I agree with Paul in 1 Cor. 15:
35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection 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:
Nothing in Scripture says spirit s are invisible and do not have some type of material body.
And despite the Watchtower teaching- every single soul will be raised from the dead and rejoined with their bodies:
13 And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.
Everyperson who ever existed will be resurrected in a new body!
Some to glory and some to suffering.
Paul did not say th elost will not be resurrected or resurrected in the mortal bodies they died in.
Accept Jesus [physical resurrection aND be saved.