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#498 What Christians Get Wrong About the Resurrection of the Body - Joe Heschmeyer

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The Physical Resurrection

Paul is not denying the physical resurrection. We might say bodily resurrection if that's clearer. But I mean, only because people seem to get hung up on the word physical. Where again, I don't know what they're imagining. So there's a difference between what happens in the resurrection and what happens to Lazarus. With Lazarus, you have something like a resuscitation. The soul had left the body, the soul is reunited to the body, but the body continues in the state it was in before death. And Lazarus has to die a second time because the body still retains its mortality. It hasn't been glorified with the resurrection,. Jesus's and then eventually our own. Paul says

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