[For Paul] You may be allowed to eat meat offered to idols, but you cannot deny the future bodily resurrection and claim that denial as an allowable Christian option.It's sad that some need to be reminded of this.
08 January, 2008
Quicky Wright Quote
Yes, I'm still around, getting back into the swing of things after a wacky non-productive, non-restful break. I'm way behind on my readings but trying to get caught up. All I'll say at this point: N.T. Wright's The Resurrection of the Son of God (2003) is awesome. It's very clear (why can't the German theologian write like this?) and very devastating in its tight common-sense logic. I love this quote on the resurrection in 1 Cor. 15:
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Why did people convert to Jesus-worship and still scoff at the idea that God would choose to raise a corpse?
Why does 'Resurrection' never quote Paul pleading in Romans 7:24 to be rescued from his body? (Paul knew what happened to corpses and did not want to be there when it happened)
Why does Resurrection never quote the author of 1 Peter saying 'All flesh is grass', almost as though he had never heard of the flesh of Jesus being saved from corruption?
Why does 'Resurrection' never quote in full, Paul writing 'The first man Adam became a created being, the last Adam a life-giving spirit'?
Because Wright's readers could see the typology if Wright did not put the two halves of that verse pages apart....
Paul clearly expects all Christians to become life-giving spirits.
That is why the Corinthians were such idiots to discuss how corpses could be raised.
They would be resurrected like Jesus was, and become life-giving spirits.
Sean,
Welcome back to blogging! :-)
And I couldn't agree more with Wright. I have to read The New Testament and the People of God then the other one, and finally get into the one you're reading. I'm glad you're enjoying it... It gives me confidence that it's going to be good.
Steven,
So you're arguing that three lone verses somehow constitute a typology in which the idea of bodily resurrection is overturned?
Paul says Jesus became a spirit.
Nonsense, says Wright. Jesus was no more a spirit after the resurrection than he was before the resurrection, , when he was God made flesh, raising people from the dead.
After the resurrection, claims Wright, Jesus was still God made flesh, and could still raise people from the dead.
So how did Jesus become a spirit, as Paul claimed he did?
Paul, of course, believed in a bodily resurrection.
But the body was not Adam's body, which was still in the ground.
Hence the bafflement of early Christians as to how they could be resurrected like Jesus, when they were not gods like him, and only had bodies - which they knew stayed in the grave.
Wright shows quite clearly how resurrection means "raised bodily" and "raised bodily" alone. Reading Wright and comments such as yours, those holding an orthodox view wonder why this is such a big issue for some...
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