People see what they want to see.
In some way it reminds me of the parents watching their son marching in formation.
"Look! Everyone is marching out of step except our Johnny!"
uh...yea, exactly!
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People see what they want to see.
In some way it reminds me of the parents watching their son marching in formation.
"Look! Everyone is marching out of step except our Johnny!"
I see more scriptural gymnastics. That is not what 1 Cor 15:50 says at all.
A little copy and paste from biblegateway.com from 1 Corinthians 15. Check it out for yourself. Seems their team of translators don't agree with you. You'll of course note the bold & underlined description of those verses is their description not mine although I couldn't have said it better myself.
The Nature of the Resurrection Body
35 But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? What kind of body will they have when they come?" 36 Foolish one! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. 37 And as for what you sow—you are not sowing the future body, but only a seed, perhaps of wheat or another grain. 38 But God gives it a body as He wants, and to each of the seeds its own body. 39 Not all flesh is the same flesh; there is one flesh for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is different from that of the earthly ones. 41 There is a splendor of the sun, another of the moon, and another of the stars; for star differs from star in splendor. 42 So it is with the resurrection of the dead:
Sown in corruption, raised in incorruption;
43 sown in dishonor, raised in glory;
sown in weakness, raised in power;
44 sown a natural body, raised a spiritual body.
If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 So it is written: The first man Adam became a living being ; the last Adam became a life-giving Spirit. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
47 The first man was from the earth and made of dust;
the second man is from heaven.
48 Like the man made of dust, so are those who are made of dust;
like the heavenly man, so are those who are heavenly.
49 And just as we have borne the image of the man made of dust,
we will also bear the image of the heavenly man.
Victorious Resurrection
50 Brothers, I tell you this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption. 51 Listen! I am telling you a mystery:
We will not all fall asleep, but we will all be changed,
52 in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet.
For the trumpet will sound, and the dead will be raised incorruptible,
and we will be changed.
53 Because this corruptible must be clothed with incorruptibility,
and this mortal must be clothed with immortality.
54 Now when this corruptible is clothed with incorruptibility,
and this mortal is clothed with immortality,
then the saying that is written will take place:
Death has been swallowed up in victory.
55 O Death, where is your victory?
O Death, where is your sting?
56 Now the sting of death is sin, and the power of sin is the law.
57 But thanks be to God, who gives us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ!
58 Therefore, my dear brothers, be steadfast, immovable, always excelling in the Lord's work, knowing that your labor in the Lord is not in vain.
I see selective scriptural application. It's easy to twist one verse into an incorrect meaning when you isolate it; however, if one reads the surrounding verses one gets the proper context here.
Start reading from 1 Corinthians verse 35 till the end of the chapter and it is easy to see they describe the nature of the resurrection body and Christ's victory in resurrection!
Thanks for making my point
Winman's posts are too long to quote. His words always baffle me and his is logic is too painful to follow. Sometimes he seems to in a round about way come back to support my position (full preterist), but who knows.
Winman God bless you, I'm sure we'll be friends in heaven. If we ever meet in person I'm sure we could be good friends, but I'm just don't have the time to sort out your position and try to make sense of your scriptural quotes and how they fit the topic at hand.
I'm not going to respond to your posts any more either.
God bless you and good bye.
Rev 2:7 He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Jesus here shows that we will eat in heaven. A spirit does not need to eat.
The Spirit is saying this to the true Christians (church). Where it refers to the tree of life, it is referring to Jesus....meaning we partake of Him. He does feed our spirits, with Him!!
SO I ASKED Logos1 about THE FOLLOWING and he did not respond:Hello Mel,
Yes we will have to agree to disagree. When Christ was on earth the last 40 days after the resurrection at least part of the time he was in a physical body. No problem with that. [No explanation of what change took place].
We don't need a physical body. Everything the bible tells us about our glorified body indicates it will be spiritual in nature. I’m ok with that. I don’t need to hang on to a physical body. Heaven in a spiritual body will be better than anyplace else in a physical body.
Again I wrote:We cannot share the experience of glorified physical bodies in your view. I wonder how you explain the non-spirit body of Christ's Post Resurrection.
I find no interest at all on the part of Full Preterists in recognizing the meritsFull Preterism automatically cannot be taught as the truth in the same Church or Body of Christ...for it allows the denial of the doctrine of
the future physical resurrection of all Believers AS WELL AS future literal return of Christ in His physically glorified body!