Once again, we continue with the subject

Death and Resurrection

We were discussing what it is that is to be resurrected the body or the soul?

The Scriptures themselves deny that the body will be resurrection as pointed out by the Apostle Paul in 1 Cor 15:35-38.

“But someone will say, “How are the dead raised up? And with what body do they come?” Foolish one, what you sow is not made alive unless it dies. And what you sow, you do not sow that body that shall be, but mere grain—perhaps wheat or some other grain. But God gives it a body as He pleases, and to each seed its own body.”

“It is not the body that is to be resurrected, and this is clearly shown by the words above quoted, ‘God gives IT a body.’

What is the ‘IT‘ mentioned here?

Mark you, ‘IT‘ is that which is resurrected.

If as some suggest it is the body that is to be resurrected and then God gives IT a body, it follows that IT now has two bodies, the body which was supposedly resurrected and the body the Lord gives IT.

Why would the Lord give the body a body?

It’s little wonder in the Apostle discussion he referred to the imaginary questioner as a “foolish” individual to even ask such a question as, ‘With what body are the dead raise?”. It’s not the body that is raised at all.

When we get a clear understanding of God’s plan, this Scripture is entirely clarified. God formed man of the dust of the earth, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living soul. The soul was the IT. In proof of that mark the words ‘The soul that sins, IT shall die.’

It is the soul that dies, and it is the soul that is to be resurrected, God gives IT — the soul, the being, a body as it pleases him.

God’s proposition is the restoration of the soul, the personality. Some dead souls, in the resurrection, will come forth with spirit bodies, and others with human bodies. The important part is, that it is the soul, the being, that comes forth–NOT the body.

We submit, upon the whole, that the Scriptures clearly teach that man is a soul; that the soul is mortal, subject to God’s law; that the soul means man, the creature; the soul (man, creature) dies, and would forever remain out of existence, except that God has made provision for redemption, awakening and resurrection, and the Scriptures with one accord conclusively prove that the soul is unconscious from the moment of death to the moment of awakening to the resurrection.”

Some Scriptures which teach that it is the soul that is to be resurrected.

“For You will not leave my soul in Sheol (The abode of the dead), Nor will You allow Your Holy One to see corruption.” (Psa 16:10)

“O Lord, you brought my soul up from the grave; You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.” (Psa 30:3)

“But God will redeem my soul from the power of the grave, For He shall receive me. Selah.” (Psa 49:15)

We will continue with our look at how orthodoxy interprets a bodily resurrection in our next post.