3/27/2023 0 Comments Tadam the last man on earthThe sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised imperishable, and we shall be changed. For this perishable body must put on the imperishable, and this mortal body must put on immortality. When the perishable puts on the imperishable, and the mortal puts on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written: 'Death is swallowed up in victory.' 'O death, where is your victory? O death, where is your sting?'Īnd finally, that the victory we can have over death itself is by believing in and doing the work of Jesus Christ, verses 56-58: I tell you this, brothers: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. Behold! I tell you a mystery. We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. It is inescapable the spiritual body will pass on to the afterlife at the time of the resurrection. We will all be changed after the physical death our existence doesn't simply end when we die. That is answered immediately after the text we've just read. Where does that leave the rest of us human beings? As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust, and as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. >But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. The first man was from the earth, a man of dust the second man is from heaven. He uses Adam and Jesus to highlight the distinction, verses 46-49: If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, 'The first man Adam became a living being' the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.įurthermore, life must go through the process of having a physical body first, and then moving into a spiritual form after the physical dies. It (the earthly body) is sown in weakness it (the spiritual body) is raised in power. It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body. What is sown is perishable what is raised is imperishable. It (the earthly body) is sown in dishonor it (the spiritual body) is raised in glory. So is it with the resurrection of the dead. Now, here is where his point lies, a series of statements that contrast the human body and the spiritual body. The passage of scripture that you're drawing from is Paul describing that process and distinction between celestial and terrestrial bodies, 1 Cor 15:35-40:īut someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?' You foolish person! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. When Jesus was dead and buried under the earth, he "beat" the death of the flesh through resurrection, made alive in the spirit. Adam was created from the dust of the earth (to dust he returned). From my understanding, its because sin was introduced to mankind through Adam, and through Jesus all sin is forgiven.
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