Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!geneva.rutgers.edu!christian From: ciriello@lafcol.uucp (Patrick Ciriello II) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: immortality in this life? Message-ID: Date: 15 Jul 89 08:23:55 GMT Sender: hedrick@geneva.rutgers.edu Organization: NET Manager, Lafayette College Lines: 23 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu I think we have to look at the ressurection of Jesus to see whether we get a new body at the ressurection, or a transformed body from the old one. I believe, and I think the bible supposrts this (i have to go do some reading) theat Jesus's body was ressurected from the old one .. and I believe we are to go through the same process right before judgement (like, during the rapture) Pat [You probably want to look at I Cor 15:35ff. Both that and the resurrection stories suggest that the resurrection body is something new. I.e. different in kind. On the other hand, it's reasonable to think that there would be some similarity to the old one, since it's the same person. But the question was whether you could be resurrected while your body is still there in the ground. The fact that it is a "spiritual body" rather than a physical one (which is what Paul says) would seem to say that it is not made out of the same material as the old one. So it seems that there's nothing physically or metaphysically impossible with them coexisting. Whether they do depends upon how you read various other passages, which is a different question. --clh]