Steven Carr

CARR
I believe you did say that Paul used 'flesh & blood' to show the corruptible nature of the human body.

You wrote before 'Bernard replies: I meant human beings in a flesh and blood form. Paul was making a point that humans, in their earthly form (with corruptable flesh and blood) will require transformation/transfiguration "in a flash" before going to heaven.'

CARR
Perhaps Paul was stressing in Gal 1:16 the fact that he did not consult with anything mortal, implying that his Gospel came from spiritual beings.

Out of interest, how can the body require a transformation in Paul's view? If there are just a few bones left in the graves, what is there to transform? How, for example, could skin be transformed if there was no skin left?

If somebody's head had been cut off in battle, how could their head be transformed in a resurrection? It just isn't there to be transformed.

Bernard Muller

CARR:
Perhaps Paul was stressing in Gal 1:16 the fact that he did not consult with anything mortal, implying that his Gospel came from spiritual beings.

Bernard: Yes, I think that also. And the spiritual beings were the resurrected Christ and the Holy Spirit

CARR:
Out of interest, how can the body require a transformation in Paul's view? If there are just a few bones left in the graves, what is there to transform? How, for example, could skin be transformed if there was no skin left?
If somebody's head had been cut off in battle, how could their head be transformed in a resurrection? It just isn't there to be transformed.

Bernard: I am the wrong guy to answer that. But I thought I read somewhere that everything is possible for God . Then I do not think Paul had a physical heavenly body in mind, with new skin and new head. More like a soul clothed by immortality, whatever it means.

Best regards, Bernard