Resurrection of the Body and the End Times Framewo...
November 23rd, 2017 | Resurrection | No Comment
Resurrection of the Body and the End Times Framework
On Facebook, in the Preterist Perspectives page, we are discussing the resurrection of the body and the end times framework. Our aim is to determine whether this framework establishes the individual body at death (IBV) view or the covenant body (CBV). Which is the correct framework for eschatology.
Many are interested in the resurrection. It continues to be the most challenging topic for those seeking to understand the consummation of the end times message. Gordon Fee, Professor emeritus of New Testament studies in British Columbia, UK, has written some very powerful statements affirming ...
Dying And Rising With Christ 2 Corinthians 4:10-12...
November 22nd, 2017 | Resurrection | No Comment
Dying and Rising With Christ 2 Corinthians 4:10-12
In this study we examine further the relationship of dying and rising with Christ. Most futurist and some Preterists see the physical body paradigm of resurrection in 2 Corinthians 5. Our study will examine that premise as we walk through the context of 2 Corinthians to demonstrate that Paul's view of the resurrection did not entail a body rising from the ground.
The most common approach is to look at the persecutions of 2 Cor. 4:8-9 and read into them the meaning that this is the spring board for individual bodily resurrection in the ...
Relationship Between Sown in Corruption and Raised...
November 21st, 2017 | Eschatology | No Comment
The Body Is Being Sown In Corruption
Problematic for the IBV and other advocates who claim that the body is being sown in corruption from birth is their reading of First Corinthians 15:42. The text states, 'It is being sown in corruption'. In order to fit their paradigm, they must alter Paul's language to say, it was or it has been sown in corruption. Yet, that is not how the text reads in the English or the Greek.
In the English it is present passive tense. It is being sown in corruption. In the Greek it is present passive. It (speiretai, 3rd ...
Are We Sown In Corruption From Birth?
November 20th, 2017 | Resurrection | No Comment
Are We Sown in Corruption From Natural Birth?
In the previous article, we established that sowing occurred in death, not in birth or creation. In this study of Are We Sown in Corruption?, we examine what corruption is in the resurrection texts and the results of being sown into it. So first let's define the term. Once defined, we can begin to reason from that definition and draw conclusions.
Corruption Defined
The Greek word, phthartos (corruptible) means perishable things, that which is perishing, used of metals which rust, as gold and silver, (1 Peter 1:18) contrasted with the eternal salvation through Christ's blood.
In ...
The Body Is Sown In Corruption When and How?
November 19th, 2017 | Resurrection | No Comment
The Body Is Sown In Corruption
In the study of eschatology, the resurrection of the body is the subject of heated debate. Perhaps because we are so inseparably connected to our bodies, we are deeply invested in what happens to them in what is called the end times.
Expositors generally take it for granted that bodily resurrection is about the transformation and morphing of our physical bodies into spiritual ones. This is not the subject of our current study. In this segment on the body is sown in corruption, we will focus on the sowing in continuation from our first article. See ...