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Originally Posted by zeek
There is no scientific evidence that mind-reading without an fMRI is a real phenomenon. So, while the ambiguity of Paul's statement is such that your interpretation cannot be conclusively refuted, the same ambiguity leaves the statement open to the more inclusive traditional interpretation of the verse.
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There's no need for mind-reading Paul. That Paul expected the last Adam to become the life-giving spirit was imminent is revealed not only in the "not all shall sleep verse," but elsewhere:
1Co 7:29 But this I say, brethren, the time is short: it remaineth, that both they that have wives be as though they had none;
1Co 10:11 Now all these things happened unto them for ensamples: and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come.
Gal 1:4 Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father: