Virgil Vaduva: Bye bye body of death. Hello new body of life. Thank God for 70AD!

Virgil Vaduva "Throughout Romans 8 Paul is creating the tension between Old Covenant (Law, Old Creation) and the New Covenant (New Creation) in which "the redemption of OUR BODY (singular) will take place (temporally focused on horizontal dualism). He is even using the imagery of birth (the entire creation was in birth pains) UNTIL NOW. (with Preterism, you must keep in mind that the first century's hope was 70AD, so any future phases had 70AD, AND ONLY 70AD, in mind. Hyper-Preterist believe since all prophecy was fulfilled, the bible DOES NOT SPEAK BEYOND THAT PERIOD. Again Preterism passes off our struggles, our pains, and tribulations in the flesh and makes it about THEM, NOT US. Another trick of Satan. How mistaken they are to conclude that the body in birth pains was the "Jewish law, the body of death", and not point it to body of flesh which is at constant war and struggle with our spirit.)

The New Creation which was ready to be born while Paul was writing Romans happened in the first century. Remember, the Jewish temple was the ultimate standing symbol of the Jewish law, the body of death, the place where animals were being sacrificed on our behalf. That body of death WAS destroyed and a new body of Christ (the Church) finally WAS inaugurated (in 70AD) into God's presence; only in this body can one find life. The Church is the New Creation, the New Jerusalem, the New Israel, the new "living body.""

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