The blows seemed to go through also and have no effect whatsoever on
the new resurrection bodies.
Not exact matches
Sure, we got the «
New Body,
New Mind»
resurrection promise — but then it won't be us anymore anyway.
Others have said that his disciples stole his
body, then proclaimed His
resurrection in the hope of continuing the
new religion.
(I Corinthians 15:29) The profoundest experiences of Christian conversion — especially remission of sins, (Acts 2:38; I Peter 3:21) the death of the old life and the
resurrection of the
new, (Romans 6:2 - 4; Colossians 2:12) and incorporation into the
body of Christ (I Corinthians 12:13, 27; Ephesians 4:4 - 5)-- were associated with baptism.
In lecturing on Plato's dialogue Phaedo, where Socrates sets forth the view that the afterlife is a state of being where the soul passively contemplates the eternal Forms, I would draw a clear contrast between that and the
New Testament teaching about the
resurrection of the
body.
At the
resurrection, we will receive our
new, glorified bodies, and it is with these that we will live in the New Heavens and New Ear
new, glorified
bodies, and it is with these that we will live in the
New Heavens and New Ear
New Heavens and
New Ear
New Earth.
While Paul's thought is by no means always clear, and perhaps from letter to letter not always exactly the same, it is nevertheless certain that his concept of
resurrection can be clearly distinguished from that of the traditional «bodily
resurrection».27 Paul does not speak in terms of the «same
body» but rather in terms of a
new body, whether it be a «spiritual
body», 28 «the likeness of the heavenly man», 29 «a house not made by human hands, eternal and in heaven», 30 or, a «
new body put on» over the old.31 In using various figures of speech to distinguish between the present
body of flesh and blood and the future
resurrection body, he seems to be thinking of both
bodies as the externals which clothe the spirit and without which we should «find ourselves naked».32 But he freely confesses that the «earthly frame that houses us today ’33 may, like the seed, and man of dust, be destroyed, but the «heavenly habitation», which the believer longs to put on, is already waiting in the heavenly realm, for it is eternal by nature.
For those who have defended the traditional interpretation of the
resurrection of Jesus as an historical event involving the raising and removal of a physical
body, that which has carried most weight is simply the fact that, on a plain reading of the
New Testament, the Bible itself seems to give unqualified support to such a view, in some places if not in all.
When we study the whole Bible on the subject of the dead, we learn that no one gets a
new body until the Rapture or the
resurrections.
Theology responded to this
new situation by reviving the ancient doctrine of the
resurrection of the
body.
(Especially The
Resurrection of the Dead [1926]-RRB- Karl Barth considers it to be the
New Testament interpretation that the transformation of the
body occurs for everyone immediately after his individual death — as if the dead were no longer in time.
The fact is that, according to the first Christians the full, genuine life of the
resurrection is inconceivable apart from the
new body, the «spiritual
body», with which the dead will be clothed when heaven and earth are re-created.
The whole thought of the
New Testament remains for us a book sealed with seven seals if we do not read behind every sentence there this other sentence: Death has already been overcome (death, be it noted, not the body); there is already a new creation (a new creation, be it noted, not an immortality which the soul has always possessed) the resurrection age is already inaugurat
New Testament remains for us a book sealed with seven seals if we do not read behind every sentence there this other sentence: Death has already been overcome (death, be it noted, not the
body); there is already a
new creation (a new creation, be it noted, not an immortality which the soul has always possessed) the resurrection age is already inaugurat
new creation (a
new creation, be it noted, not an immortality which the soul has always possessed) the resurrection age is already inaugurat
new creation, be it noted, not an immortality which the soul has always possessed) the
resurrection age is already inaugurated.
The awakening of the saints which immediately follows signals the beginning of this
new creation: «And the tombs were opened and many
bodies of the saints having been asleep were raised; and coming out of the tombs after his
resurrection they entered the holy city and were manifested to many» (27:53 - 3).
(I Corinthians 15:35 - 44) In the
New Testament, therefore, our earliest written testimony to the
resurrection of Jesus comes from one who devoutly believed that Christ was «raised on the third day» (I Corinthians 15:4) but who could not, consistently with his other thinking, have conceived it as the revivification of a physical
body.
Furthermore, in the
New Testament generally, this Jewish insistence on keeping the
body, however rarefied and spiritualized, as part of the future hope, was associated with the Jewish apocalyptic drama — the sudden arrival of the Messiah on the clouds of heaven and the
resurrection to eternal destinies.
Paul did not believe in the
resurrection of the flesh; he specifically denied that «flesh and blood» continued after death; (I Corinthians 15:50) and the spiritual «
body» with which he wished to be clothed moved in
new dimensions altogether, quite different from the Jews» resuscitated «flesh and bones.»
In a person's union with Christ, dramatically enacted in the
body at baptism, they enter into the death of Christ and into the
resurrection of Christ and it brings them into a «
new life.»
«Through baptism, man becomes a part of the
new humanity which is the
body of Christ, and thus comes to share in the
resurrection of the heat of the
body, Christ the Lord,» is the way a study on Iranaeus has been summed up.
It is from the
body of sin and death that we are delivered; it is through the
body of Christ on the Cross that we are saved; it is into His
body the Church that we are incorporated; it is by His
body in the Eucharist that this Community is sustained; it is in our
body that its
new life has to be manifested; it is to a
resurrection of this
body to the likeness of His glorious
body that we are destined.
Resurrection with God's gift of a
new spiritual
body is the major biblical concept (cf. I Cor.
The
Resurrection is the real indication of Christ's power over death and sin, of course, but also of His power over matter: matter is raised to
new potentialities,
new relationships, as shown by His Risen
Body being able to pass through walls, no longer materially confined by time and space as before, an indication of our own future bodily lives in the state called «heaven».
It is certainly the case that Thomas Aquinas, and many following him, thought of the soul as the «form», or information - bearing pattern, of the
body, and that they saw the Christian hope of the
resurrection as being the reimbodiment of that form by God in a
new environment of His choosing.
Entitled The
Resurrection, Al Azmeh's
new body of work presents the artist's ongoing focus on the Syrian revolution and its effect on the social landscape of the country.
In fact, these works were part of a far larger project to absolutely instrumentalize art and its rational capacities and apply its forms and spaces to a project of uncompromising progressivism — a total transformation of life by all possible means, whether by designing architecture for life in outer space, developing artistic technology for the
resurrection of the dead, or evolving
new sensory organs for our
bodies.