(December 19, 2014 at 3:46 pm)Lek Wrote:(December 19, 2014 at 3:42 pm)Jenny A Wrote: Then why the body missing from the tomb? And the nail holes in the resurrected Jesus?
We will be physically resurrected, but we will be made perfect. Jesus did bear the marks of the crucifixion. These were an identifier of who he was.
You're awfully confident for a man with this sort of material to work from:
Quote:Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. 40 There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. 41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.1 Corinthians 39-54 NRSV
42 So it is 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 physical body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a physical 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 physical, 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 are those who are of the dust; and as is the man of heaven, so are those who are of heaven. 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we will also bear the image of the man of heaven.
50 What I am saying, brothers and sisters, is this: flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable. 51 Listen, I will tell you a mystery! We will not all die, 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 imperishable, and we will be changed. 53 For this perishable body must put on imperishability, and this mortal body must put on immortality. 54 When this perishable body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality
Especially when there are contrasting verses like these:
Quote:And, behold, the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom; and the earth did quake, and the rocks. And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,Mathew 27:51-53
And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.
One sounds pretty spiritual and the other, like Jesus and his nail holes, rather original body fleshy.
If there is a god, I want to believe that there is a god. If there is not a god, I want to believe that there is no god.