1 Corinthians 15:42-49 - “So is it with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable; what is raised is imperishable. 43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness; it is raised in power. 44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. 45 Thus it is written, ‘The first man Adam became a living being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit. 46 But it is not the spiritual that is first but the natural, and then the spiritual. 47 The first man was from the earth, a man of dust; the second man is from heaven. 48 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. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.”
We Will Not Live Unless We
There Is
God Is Able to
So, Paul is arguing, God is able to take similar physical material and organize it differently to accomplish his purposes. (Mare)
But, What Is
VERSES 38-40 - But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. 39 For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 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. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
Paul must first convince the Corinthians that their natural bodies are not conducive to a non-earthly plane of existence; that is, Christian belief in resurrection does not mean resuscitation or recomposition of a decomposed corpse. (Baker)
As a plant which sprouted from a seed was directly linked to it but remarkably different from it, so too was the relationship of a natural and a resurrected body. (Lowery)
A Better Life Is Possible Because of a Better Progenitor
Adam Was
e
Genesis 2:7 - then the Lord God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature.
John 5:26 - For as the Father has life in himself, so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself.
Romans 8:11 - If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
Adam Came From the
John 6:38 - For I have come down from heaven, not to do my own will but the will of him who sent me.
Bearing the Image
Treat Your Future Self
Look