Someone suggested:
"What is to be resurrected? I have been created an eternal (created by GOD in eternity) and was separated from GOD at conception, so now I am a spirit living in an earthly body having a soul(mind will emotions) which has allowed GOD'S SPIRIT back to reconnect me to GOD. Now living in GOD'S kingdom, Resurrected?, awaiting the final destruction of a corrupt body, which turns to "dust". Still working on these concepts.So I may be saying that my "second coming" relationship with CHRIST will happen when I leave this earth body behind. Hmmm."
My thoughts:
If that is all the Bible meant by our resurrection, would Paul have said that the dead in Christ were yet to rise at the last trumpet? and would he have taken issue with those who claimed the resurrection was already past.
The Apostles talked about living in the Kingdom now, and at the same time they also talked about looking forward to His Kingdom coming, when Jesus comes the second time, when the dead in Christ shall rise.
The fact that the Apostles considered the second coming, the resurrection, and the appearing of the Kingdom as still still future, did not however mean that they considered the prophecies concerning Israel as unfulfilled. Rather, they asserted that it was precisely because the promises had been fulfilled, that God had brought near the means by which all men could now believe and receive the Kingdom within them - the indwelling assurance from the Spirit that they shall enter the Kingdom when He appears the second time.
"What is to be resurrected? I have been created an eternal (created by GOD in eternity) and was separated from GOD at conception, so now I am a spirit living in an earthly body having a soul(mind will emotions) which has allowed GOD'S SPIRIT back to reconnect me to GOD. Now living in GOD'S kingdom, Resurrected?, awaiting the final destruction of a corrupt body, which turns to "dust". Still working on these concepts.So I may be saying that my "second coming" relationship with CHRIST will happen when I leave this earth body behind. Hmmm."
My thoughts:
If that is all the Bible meant by our resurrection, would Paul have said that the dead in Christ were yet to rise at the last trumpet? and would he have taken issue with those who claimed the resurrection was already past.
The Apostles talked about living in the Kingdom now, and at the same time they also talked about looking forward to His Kingdom coming, when Jesus comes the second time, when the dead in Christ shall rise.
The fact that the Apostles considered the second coming, the resurrection, and the appearing of the Kingdom as still still future, did not however mean that they considered the prophecies concerning Israel as unfulfilled. Rather, they asserted that it was precisely because the promises had been fulfilled, that God had brought near the means by which all men could now believe and receive the Kingdom within them - the indwelling assurance from the Spirit that they shall enter the Kingdom when He appears the second time.
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