The Collective Corporate Body of Christ and Person...
December 30th, 2013 | Eschatology | No Comment
Does A Corporate Collective Resurrection Body of Christ Supersede or Annul Individual Existence?
As the resurrection debate continues, several find a corporate collective resurrection body of Christ unappealing. For them, it overrides the individual body resulting in a loss of both individuality and personhood or identity. They believe that to be part of the corporate collective body merges them into "nothingness" insignificance and non-existence.
We offer the following texts to demonstrate that the corporate body of Christ does not supersede or annul individuality.
First Consider the Corporate Body of Marriage
Marriage, i.e. the coming together of two people as one, is a collective corporate ...
The Eschatological Kingdom and Resurrection Are On...
December 21st, 2013 | Eschatology | 2 Comments
Eschatological Kingdom and Resurrection Are One
For the past couple of weeks, Don Preston and I have been teaching on the subject of the eschatological kingdom of God and the resurrection. Earlier today, I while searching for a book I'm writing on the resurrection but could not locate in my computer files (tells how long ago since I've worked on it), I found another brief paper I'd written on the topic at hand. It was dated 2010.
Because of recent discussions on resurrection, i.e. debates and correspondence via email, podcasts and college papers, mostly from partial preterists and IBD advocates the subject ...