[UntoHim]

Originally Posted by zeek

Seems to me we are in effect spiritual bodies now. The spirit is said to leave the body at death. So, until then spirit and body seem somehow joined. The significant difference between the body now and post-resurrection seems to be that the resurrected body is immortal. Consistent with Swinburne's definition of spirit as a person without a body, there is Kierkegaard's thesis in "Sickness Unto Death"

There you go again, my friend zeek, using extra-biblical sources to try and confirm or else deny facts that are clearly explained in the biblical text itself.

And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. 1 Cor 15:37

What was "sown"? The text is extremely clear: the physical body of the first Adam. What was "raised"? Well that is what this part of 1 Cor 15 and this thread are all about! But we can't get to the what was raised part without acknowledging the what was sown part. Of course we can simply jump ahead and argue about the "became a life giving spirit", but what fun is that if we can't even agree on what is meant by "the first Adam became a living soul"?