1 Corinthians: “Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God”

Our physical bodies (“flesh and blood”) cannot receive the kingdom of God which Christ will deliver to his Father in heaven in eternity once time here on earth has ceased (15:24ff; cf. 2 Pet. 1:11).  We therefore need to be resurrected from our current “perishable” physical bodies to the “imperishable” eternal bodies waiting for us on the Day of Judgment. … Read More 1 Corinthians: “Flesh and Blood Cannot Inherit the Kingdom of God”

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1 Corinthians: The First and Last Adam

God created Adam to be a physical being whose body, made from dust, was designed to live on this physical planet.  While God did not create all of us who followed Adam from dust as he did with Adam, he likewise created and designed our bodies to live on and inhabit this physical planet.  When Christ raises us from the dead on the last day, however, our new bodies (“the second man”) will be designed to live in and inhabit an eternal heaven.… Read More 1 Corinthians: The First and Last Adam

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1 Corinthians: “How Are The Dead Raised?”

Our physical bodies die when our spirits leave them and start the long, terrible process of decomposition and decay (James 2:26a; Eccl. 3:20; 12:7; Job 34:15).  Yet on the wonderful and terrible day that Christ comes again, the physical body that had perished due to its weakness and likely had long since decayed to dust, that body that had no honor inherently within it when it was buried, will be resurrected as something – someone – who is quite different from what he or she used to be, yet still the same person (cf. 1 Thess. 4:13-18).… Read More 1 Corinthians: “How Are The Dead Raised?”

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1 Corinthians: “Bad Company Ruins Good Morals”

If there is no resurrection of the dead at the end of time, then it follows that there would be no eternal reward of heaven or eternal punishment of hell.  That being the case, then this life would be all that there is…so why not go ahead and do whatever you want while you can, before death takes you? Recognizing the spiritual danger within this line of thinking, Paul exhorts the church at Corinth to “not be deceived” and to remember that those among them who were promoting this sinful worldview were indeed “bad company” who would certain “ruin” their “good morals.”… Read More 1 Corinthians: “Bad Company Ruins Good Morals”

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