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 Kingdom of God and Immortality In discussing the subject of the kingdom of God and immortality, some writers and speakers have chosen to limit this concept to that of individual bodies. They believe that the focus of immortality, eternal life and incorruption has as its center, a remaking of the physical body of man. At its core, is the idea that man's body is evil in some way, i.e. that it has fallen under a sinful nature from which it cannot escape in this life, except through death. Further, such escape is only available to those who obey the gospel. This thinking permeates ...