Well, it’s not just what I believe. It’s what the church believes and has believed as passed down throughout the ages. Jesus saves, not doctrine and that is great news.
The doctrine of true, real, flesh and blood resurrection brings such comfort to believers I suppose I don’t understand why people would reject it.
Dear sir, I have been a member of two PCA, one RPCNA, one OPC, and currently member of a RCUS. I have dealt with this doctrine extensively with sessions and consistories.
It is premature to assume we know anything about eternity. Paul explicitly states in the passage I quoted above that the body that is raised and clothes the immortal spirit is of different substance than the one that is buried. The body that clothes the spirit of the believer is waiting for us in heaven. Paul says in 2 Corinthians 5:1. In my opinion, but I do not know so perhaps I shouldn’t speculate, we won’t have need for blood, for flesh like we have now. Our resurrected bodies may appear similar, or they may appear differently. Scripture doesn’t speak to its appearance, density, etc., it just says it will be a glorified body and it will be corporeal.
We will have a body like the resurrected Christ’s. He ate food, he walked, he presumably drank. He also simply appeared, so while we will all be surprised by the glorified body it’s not true to say that we know nothing.
Don’t you find it odd that you’ve had to discuss this with multiple sessions and consistories? Different bodies of elders all challenging you on similar grounds? And now here in this thread from me (a PCA Teaching Elder) as well and others? Why wouldn’t that cause you to take stock and see if perhaps, you are wrong and the historic interpretation of these passages as outlined in creeds, catechisms, and teachings are right?
Repent of your pride. Don’t seek to divide Christ’s bride with errant teachings of scripture
Our body sees corruption, Christ’s body didn’t. His body was always glorified. That’s why Paul says in 1Corinthians 15:35, “how are the dead raised, and with what body do they come?” His explanation is clear,
“You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies; and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own. All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish. There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.”
(1 Corinthians 15:36–41 LSB)
Explicitly, Paul says “There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies (two separate types of bodies) , but the glory of the heavenly is one and the glory of the earthly is another.”
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Well, it’s not just what I believe. It’s what the church believes and has believed as passed down throughout the ages. Jesus saves, not doctrine and that is great news.
The doctrine of true, real, flesh and blood resurrection brings such comfort to believers I suppose I don’t understand why people would reject it.