1 Corinthians 15:35-53 The Resurrection Body

But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?” How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else. But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body Not all flesh is the same: People have one kind of flesh, animals have another, birds another and fish another There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another The sun has one kind of splendor, the moon another and the stars another; and star differs from star in splendor. So will it be with the resurrection of the dead. The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable; it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body So it is written: “The first man Adam became a living being”; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit The spiritual did not come first, but the natural, and after that the spiritual The first man was of the dust of the earth; the second man is of heaven As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the heavenly man, so also are those who are of heaven And just as we have borne the image of the earthly man, so shall we bear the image of the heavenly man. I declare to you, brothers and sisters, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable Listen, I tell you a mystery: We will not all sleep, but we will all be changed in a flash, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trumpet. For the trumpet will sound, the dead will be raised imperishable, and we will be changed For the perishable must clothe itself with the imperishable, and the mortal with immortality. Does it strike you that men and women live 80 or more years and their heart and brain and members function all this time without replacing any parts or having an external power source? But then the human dies as is according to God's statute that wages of sin is death. Nobody can avoid it. Why do many not give God the credit for sustaining them for so long. Yet God's creation was not to make people who perish, but to make people who will live forever. When Jesus died and arose again, His risen body was not a body that would perish, but an everlasting body. And Jesus is the first fruits for all who will raise again. Like Jesus, our risen body will have the characteristics of Jesus'resurrected body - it will live forever. All persons are decreed to live forever, but only those who are saved by the work of Jesus will be with Him. Those who remain stubborn in their resurrected will be separated for forever, in outer darkness with deep regret.