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1 | whatdoes1corinthiansc15v36mean | 1 Cor 15:36 | trebacannon | 224323 | ||
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2 | whatdoes1corinthiansc15v36mean | 1 Cor 15:36 | Pew Potato | 224327 | ||
Paul had already argued for the truth of the resurrection. Those who might still be skeptical may have further questions about this resurrection, so Paul asked two such questions himself in order to answer them: (1) How will the dead be raised? (2) What kind of bodies will they have? How could it be possible for a dead body to come back to life; and if it could do so, then what kind of body would it be? To Paul, these were foolish questions. The answers should have been obvious from nature itself. Paul compared the resurrection of believers' bodies with the growth in a garden. A seed placed into the ground doesn't grow into a plant unless it dies first. The plant that grows looks very different from the seed because God gives it a new "body." Jesus had given the same metaphor for his own death in John 12:24, "Unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains just a single grain; but if it dies it bears much fruit" (NRSV). Jesus was referring to what his death would accomplish, but his analogy was the same as Paul's. Both show the necessity of death before new life. Just as a dry little seed, such as a seed of wheat, doesn't grow into a plant unless it dies first, so new bodies will not be obtained until the earthly bodies have died. And those new bodies will be different from the present bodies. - Life Application Bible Commentary – 1 and 2 Corinthians (Bruce B. Barton et al.) |
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