Quite plainly, the Bible teaches that Christians will be resurrected just as Jesus was and that our bodies will “be like his glorious body” and so “we shall be like him,” which will allow us to “see him as he is.” In short, we will finally, completely, and utterly “bear the image of the man in heaven.”Īfter his resurrection, Jesus was not a disembodied soul floating in the blessed ether of heaven. (1Jo 3:2 ESV) 2 Beloved, we are God’s children now, and what we will be has not yet appeared but we know that when he appears we shall be like him, because we shall see him as he is.
(1Co 15:49 ESV) 49 Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. (Phi 3:20-21 ESV) 20 But our citizenship is in heaven, and from it we await a Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, 21 who will transform our lowly body to be like his glorious body, by the power that enables him even to subject all things to himself. Most modern Christians have ignored these key passages: Generations of liberal readers have said, triumphantly, that Paul clearly thinks the resurrection body is spiritual rather than physical, so there’s no need for an empty tomb. we face the problem of the disastrous translation of the RSV, perpetuated in the NRSV, where we find the contrasting present and future bodies translated as ‘physical body’ and ‘spiritual body’ (15:44, 46). It answers many questions barely touched on in Surprised by Hope.īut for the sake of this post, I quote from and comment on an essay by Wright that summarizes his conclusions, “Mind, Spirit, Soul and Body: All for One and One for All-Reflections on Paul’s Anthropology in His Complex Contexts,” found in Pauline Perspectives: Essays on Paul, 1978-2013 (2013), 464–465. The Resurrection of the Son of God is a mere 740 pages, and as you can imagine, quite thorough.
Surprised by Hope is written at a more popular level and is a great read (although I disagree with his conclusions regarding the nature of hell). The question is central to his books The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, Vol. The scholar who has most thoroughly studied the question of Christian resurrection is doubtlessly N.
0 kommentar(er)
