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Originally Posted by Light
That was my point. But previously you were arguing that our true selves is our physical bodies. That they will be resurrected into physical form at the second coming of Christ and you based that on Paul's writings in Cor.
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I never said what you say. Human beings are a duality:Soul
and Body! Period. But what I have always maintained, as does scripture, is that Christ came to save
human beings, and God's saints will always be fully human, which means they must always consist of body and soul, because that is what makes us human.
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In Cor. Paul bases his theory of our physical bodies being resurrected on Christ's resurrection. But other texts in the Bible refute Paul's claim that Jesus was somehow in humanoid form after the resurrection.
Paul contradicts himself in Cor. because his initial description of the ‘risen Christ’ is as a brilliant light (Acts 9) in his visions. And not as a humanoid as he talks of in Cor.
Which brings me to my original point. That our true selves is Light and Love as Jesus demonstrated after his resurrection. Not a return to our physical bodies which most will be glad to be rid of by the time they die.
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Paul did not contradict himself. What Paul saw on the road to Damascus was the the
glorified Christ in his
heavenly body. Jesus radiated so much glory, all Paul could see was the blinding light of that glory, which actually did blind him!
Paul's earthly eyes were not fit to behold Christ's eternal, heavenly glory! Paul teaches in 1 Cor 15 that all God's saints will have identical bodies to Christ at the
future resurrection, which occurs at His second coming.
Jesus is fully human and fully divine. And all the saints, who have died in Christ since the foundation of the world, will still be fully human, as well, on the last day in their resurrected bodies -- bodies that will be totally different from our current earthly ones -- but nonetheless still physical bodies. Paul went out of his way to make that very point in 1 Cor 15 -- the point of different kinds of
bodies.
Our current earthly bodies are not fit for eternity. This is why God's saints will and must be fitted with spiritual/heavenly bodies -- the same as Christ's. This is precisely what Paul is teaching in 1 Cor 15.
So, the upshot is that Acts 9 actually supports and is consistent with all that Paul wrote about regarding the doctrine of the Resurrection. Paul's blindness on the road to Damascus poignantly demonstrates why "flesh and blood cannot inherit the eternal kingdom of God" (1Cor 15:50).
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