David Green "Here was Paul's reasoning about the "body" in 1 Corinthians 15:
1. The body is sown/buried.
2. The body dies.
3. The body is raised up/made alive.
4. The body is changed into a different body (1 Cor. 15:36-37, 42-44).
A. There was NO change without body-burial, body-death and body-resurrection.
B. Yet the living were changed without physically dying (1 Cor. 15:51-53).
C. Therefore, the living were bodily buried, bodily put to death and bodily resurrected along with the physically dead.
D. Therefore, physical death was not a prerequisite for participation in the eschatological body-burial, body-death, body-resurrection and body-change. This is what Paul taught in Romans 6 and 8, Philippians 3, and Colossians 2:
1. The living were bodily buried/sown (Rom. 6:4; Col. 2:12)
2. The living were bodily put to death (Rom. 8:10, 13)
3. The living were bodily made alive (Rom. 8:11)
4. The living were bodily changed/transformed (Phil. 3:21). \
A. Note the order in Romans and Colossians: Body-burial then body-death (Rom. 6:4).
B. Note the order in 1 Corinthians 15:36-37: Body-burial then body-death.
C. The "body" is BURIED ALIVE and THEN put to death in 1 Corinthians 15 and in Romans 6, 8/Colossians 2.
D. Therefore, body-burial/body-death does not refer to physical death or physical burial. (It describes the spiritual/covenantal, age-changing "burial" of Israel into the death of Christ "the Seed.")
Conclusion: The "body" in 1 Corinthians 15 EQUALS the "body" in Romans 6-8, Philippians 3 and Colossians 2."
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