' ... But some man will say,
How are the dead raised up?
and with what body do they come?
Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
.. 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:
.......... But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased Him,
............ and to every seed his own body.
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.
There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial:
.. but the glory of the celestial is one,
.... and the glory of the terrestrial is another.'
(1 Corinthians 15:35)
Hello
@ScottA,
With respect, taking a verse out of it's context is not wise. Looked at within it's context, the verse you quoted does not fit the application you gave to it. The seed sown always produces '
after his kind' (Genesis 1:11-12): bare grain goes into the ground (be it wheat or some other grain), but God gives it the body as it hath pleased Him, to every seed his own body (like for like).
Your understanding of the meaning of the term to, '
rightly divide' (2 Timothy 2:15), and your application of it, is one which I am not familiar with, and I do not understand your argument concerning the death and resurrection of Christ either. Forgive me, but it just seems like a foreign language which is indecipherable to my ears. That could simply be a matter of lack of familiarity, for I am not acquainted with your beliefs, or your manner of expression.
You refer to Lazarus, but he was raised to the earth, and would have died ultimately, not having a resurrection body, which is incorruptible, but the body he was born with, which was subject to corruption. However, our Lord when He was quickened into life, and raised from the dead, was in the body He was born with, yes, I agree. However His body was without sin: He need never have tasted of death, He chose to do so, in order to bear the penalty of the sin of mankind. He had life within Himself, He had the power to lay down His life and He had power to take it again (John 10:18)..
[When Mary Magdalene saw the Lord in the garden, following His quickening, and after He was raised to life again: she sought to touch Him, but in John 20:17 it says that our Lord said to her, ' ... touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to My Father ... ', yet in Luke 24:39, sometime much later on the same day He invites His disciples to ' ... handle Me and see ... ', which is curious don't you think? Does this indicate that the Lord had ascended to the Father and returned during that time? - (these are just my thoughts)]
When He appeared to His disciples He had a body in which He could appear and disappear at will, but it was none the less comprised of flesh and bone: and that was the body He ascended with.
Forgive me for not being able to understand your reasoning.
In Christ Jesus
Chris