Teaching the Resurection is Past
Response To Gentry’s Analysis of the Full Preterist View
The seed analogy (1 Corinthians. 15:35ff) does not teach that the new body with which the seed sprouts has the same outer shell and form that it had before. It is the same seed. The inner part of the seed definitely has continuity with the original seed. But part of that seed stays in the ground. It is the inner man which has the spiritual life and rises with a new kind of body. It is not the outer shell of the seed that is raised and then later changed. The change occurs before it rises out of physical death. The seed’s outer shell dies and stays in the ground, and a new kind of body rises out of the inner part of the seed already changed and fitted for its new existence. For Christians after AD 70, this new body rises at physical death, and we go immediately into the presence of God where we will spend eternity. For Christians before AD 70, they had to wait until the resurrection at AD 70 to be raised with that kind of body. This whole section of 1 Corinthians. 15:35ff is full Preterist turf in the discussion about the resurrection body. It does not teach that we will have “a physical, tangible resurrection” like Gentry suggests.
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