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Originally Posted by awareness
Interesting (left below). Thanks for presenting. Those E. Orthodox ... and their theosis. Everything is becoming -- a present on-going process -- heavenly.
So much from one little verse.
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Thank you. I believe it can give some food for mind even if one doesn't believe that the interpretation is correct.
Of course, we should not blindly trust anyone, even the Church Fathers and especially Wikipedia but that's what the latter says about 1 Corinthians 15.
1 Corinthians: 15 is the fifteenth chapter of the First Epistle to the Corinthians by Paul the Apostle. The first eleven verses are the earliest account of the Resurrection appearances of Jesus in the New Testament. The rest of the chapter stresses the primacy of the resurrection for Christianity.
Resurrection of the body: 35-58
The chapter concludes with an account of the nature of the resurrection. At the Last Judgement the dead will be raised and both the living and the dead transformed into "spiritual bodies" (44):
51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
Through the power of Christ "Death is swallowed up in victory" (54). Referencing a verse in Hosea, Paul asks: "O death where is thy sting? O grave where is thy victory?" (55), equating sin with death and the Judaic Law which have now been conquered and superseded by the victory of Christ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Corinthians_15