Became or Not Became - Interpreting 1Cor 15:45

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Originally Posted by awareness

It not my logic. It's Paul's expectation that the resurrection/change was to happen in his/their lifetime. Then, you are right, it would happen to all living believers of Paul's generation, not just Paul and the Corinthians.

"We shall not all sleep," did not mean that 20 centuries, or more, of believers shall sleep. "WE, that is WE, shall not all sleep."

It is your logic, or lack thereof, that is stretching WE to mean 20 or more centuries of WE's sleeping. We were not the we Paul was speaking about. Clearly Paul expected the resurrection/change would happen in the lifetime of some he was writing to.

He was wrong.

You are trying to make the word we say more than it does. There is ambiguity in the word that must be precluded to make your point. You wish we to mean only Paul and the Corinthians. But it can just as easily mean Paul and all Christians including the Corinthians. And, that can be the case regardless of the specific unstated span of time that may have been in Paul's mind. 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.