07-18-2014, 05:33 PM
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Re: "Become" or "Not Become" Interpreting 1Cor 15:45
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Originally Posted by awareness
He also says, just a little further down, that he's explaining a mystery:
1Co 15:51 Behold! I tell you a mystery.
But in part B he was wrong:
We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
Because, they all did sleep, including Paul. And no one has changed yet.
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That interpretation is possible but is not necessary grammatically, syntactically or contextually. Paul could be using the word "us" in a general sense to refer to the Christian community for all time.
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