35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?” 1 Corinthians 15:35 (NASB)
Eternity is the true reality, not this physical life in the temporal. At the heart of our Christian faith is our blessed hope of a bodily resurrection. Many mistakenly believe that all Christians who die are given their eternal body right then, but the Bible is clear that our eternal bodies are resurrected by God from our physical bodies that we have now….
There will be an interim between our death and the resurrection before we are given our Resurrection Bodies, but this post is about what will be after our Lord returns in victory and glory.
Our text will be from 1 Corinthians 15:35-49. We must remember that this epistle was a letter of correction from the Apostle Paul to a troubled church. In the passage we will study in this post, we can see Paul addressing questions posed from those who asked about the nature of the Resurrection with mocking taunts. Those posing these antagonistic questions were in unbelief or denial about it. They were probably either members of the church who were being derided by Gnostics or some in the church were being influenced by Gnostic teaching. So they asked the two questions below.
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?” 1 Corinthians 15:35 (NASB)