Be Found Naked

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Paul wrote a curious comment in one of his letters to the Christians at
Corinth that goes like this:

"We know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For
indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from
heaven; inasmuch as we, having put it on, shall not be found naked. For
indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do
not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal
may be swallowed up by life." (2Cor 5:1-4)

How is it that the death of a Christian's body puts them at risk of being
caught out in the open like a hermit crab without its shell?

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Paul wrote a curious comment in one of his letters to the Christians at
Corinth that goes like this:

"We know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a
building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For
indeed in this house we groan, longing to be clothed with our dwelling from
heaven; inasmuch as we, having put it on, shall not be found naked. For
indeed while we are in this tent, we groan, being burdened, because we do
not want to be unclothed, but to be clothed, in order that what is mortal
may be swallowed up by life." (2Cor 5:1-4)

How is it that the death of a Christian's body puts them at risk of being
caught out in the open like a hermit crab without its shell?

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The niv puts it:-
Meanwhile we groan, longing to be clothed instead with our heavenly dwelling, 3because when we are clothed, we will not be found naked.

It is not that we will be found naked, but that clothing/body will be provided.

 

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I encounter people quite often on internet forums who sincerely believe that
human existence is entirely physical. But Paul speaks of the physical aspect
as merely a residence rather than an existence.

I have no clue what a disembodied human looks like; but I suspect from
passages like Heb 12:23 and 1Pet 3:19-20 that my eyes cannot see them
with any more ease than they can see radio waves.

But I also suspect, from Luke 16:19-31, that though my eyes are unable to
see disembodied humans; they themselves are somehow visible to each other.
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According to Matt 10:28, the body and the soul are perishable. However;
though the body is perishable by any means, the soul is perishable only by
divine means; i.e. the deaths of body and soul aren't necessarily
simultaneous, viz: the soul lives on until such a time as God decides to give
it either a thumb up or a thumb down.

Well; according to John 5:24, Christ's believing followers all have eternal
life; which is an indestructible kind of life. Therefore the souls of his
believing followers easily survive the death of their bodies.

What's the status of those eternal souls now? Well; for sure they are
disembodied due to the fact that none of the dead bodies of Christ's
believing followers have been resurrected yet because according to 1Thess
4:13-18, they will be resurrected all at once rather than individually.
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