The Resurrections - worksheet 6

1 Corinthians 15:35-49 (NIV) says ³⁵But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” ³⁶How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body. ³⁹Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another. ⁴⁰There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another. ⁴¹The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. ⁴²So will it be with the

of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised

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; ⁴³it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; ⁴⁴it is sown a natural body, it is raised a

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body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. ⁴⁵So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a

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. ⁴⁶The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual. ⁴⁷The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven. ⁴⁸As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven. ⁴⁹And just as we have borne the

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of the earthly man, so shall we bear the

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of the heavenly man.

In the verses 35-38, Paul, speaking for Jesus, compares the transformation at resurrection with an agricultual example.

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Q1 Verse 36 says What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. What needs to die?

Q2 In the verses 38-40 Paul differentiates bodies of animals and humans. What do you see about human bodies? More than one kind? Explain.

Q3 Then suddenly in verse 41 Paul differentiates the stallar bodies in term of splendor. How does he come to come to the splendor of the spiritual body?

Q4 Explain in your own words how our transformation relates to Adam’s living being and the last Adam a life-giving spirit. Which aspect are specified and what does that mean to you?