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Originally Posted by Igzy
I admire the effort being put into figuring out what 15:45 means. But could it be that since it is hard to come to any real conclusions and consensus about its meaning (not only among us but among theologians) there isn't much more meaning than its face value?
Didn't God know we would have trouble with this verse? I mean, it is 2000 years after it was written and we still have little clue what it precisely means. It seems awfully odd, then, that this verse could contain some deep, hidden truth that is crucial to our vision or experience.
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And that is the reason that my general take on the whole passage (v 35 to the end of the chapter) is that Paul is giving them just enough to accept that there is a resurrection, and there is something more than just the same old body in resurrection. Not sure that Paul knew more than that. And we still don't.
And once it is all just a discussion of a "50,000 foot view" of the body in resurrection, you almost wonder how it could take so many verses to cover. And how such a strangely-phrased verse in the middle of it could be thought to house a phrase that needs one of those WWII encryption machines to figure out.
And once that is accepted as a reasonable way to address this verse, the thread is over. Lee is grasping at straws. Gaffin as well.