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”

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