15:42
We now come to the real reason Paul has been talking about all these things. We see in creation that God is a God of great variety, and that He transforms the seemingly dead into a living thing. So the body that is buried is perishable, indeed it has just perished! But it will be raised imperishable. The resurrection is not a mere resuscitation, but also a transformation.
15:43
The body is sown in dishonour and in weakness. A dead body is not a pretty thing. It will soon start to decompose, it no longer has any life in it. It is as weak as can be, being utterly useless. But the resurrected body will be glorious and powerful. We will get new bodies.
15:44
“It is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body”. In saying this Paul is in no way denying the reality of the physical body. He is not saying that the resurrected body will in any way be merely ephemeral. The risen Christ had a physical body (Lk 24:39), He ate fish! (Lk 24:42,43). In Romans 8 Paul tells us to live by the Spirit, not by the flesh. We will be what we were always meant to be, we will be without sin.
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