First resurrection

[swaimj]

What is your real hope, the blessed hope? Is it (as some have told me) the rapture? Is it even the resurrection? These all would be transient things. Christ is our blessed hope.

Yes, ultimately, our hope is in Christ. He is the object of hope, but there are concrete and certain things that entail from this hope including the rapture (regardless of when you think it will occur) and the physical resurrection.

Our hope in Christ MUST result in something greater than what we have in Christ now. Otherwise Paul would not say "If in this life only we have hope in Christ Jesus we are of all men most miserable". And though Christ is a present reality for the believer there is a greater reality to come. That is why Jesus promised that he would return.

 

[swaimj]

I held off on commenting on 1 Cor. 15 because of two reasons:
1. I am still sorting things out.
2. That passage requires more comments and study than I have time for now.

Fair enough. On the other hand, if you learned a certain theological position and it was based on a number of scriptures including I Cor 15, why would you completely change your position without seeing how the I Cor 15 passage fits into it or if it even agrees with it. I can understand coming to the point that you are unsure of a position, but I can't see how you can justify a completely new position without first going through the relevant texts.

 

[asterisktom]

Fair enough. On the other hand, if you learned a certain theological position and it was based on a number of scriptures including I Cor 15, why would you completely change your position without seeing how the I Cor 15 passage fits into it or if it even agrees with it. I can understand coming to the point that you are unsure of a position, but I can't see how you can justify a completely new position without first going through the relevant texts.

Please don't misunderstand. I am more sure of myself - that passage included - than I am sure how to use precise language. I don't necessarily feel that I am just among friends. Words here tend to be pounced on. I feel a greater need to be absolutely accurate in what I state.

 

[Iconoclast]

I believe it speaks of spiritual resurrection, with the promise of the glorified body to come on the last day

39And these all, having obtained a good report through faith, received not the promise:

40God having provided some better thing for us, that they without us should not be made perfect.

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