Steven Carr

Paul must have known that some Christians would be little more than dust or cremated or digested by lions etc, by the time of the resurrection.

Did he think that the resurrected body would just be a transformation of whatever bodily components were left in the digestive system of earthworms, so that there would be a continuity between the resurrected body and the destroyed, vanished physical body?

My reading of Paul's letters suggests not.

CJD

Steven, I think this is a minor point, at best. What bearing does it have on the notion that Paul taught about a physical resurrection? Paul's contrast was over corruptible substance / incorruptible substance, so that his readers could take comfort in their inevitable death.

Regards,

CJD

Steven Carr

So the idea of continuity between the body which went in the ground and the body which came out of the ground is a minor point in Paul's writings, if I understand you correctly?

By physical resurrection, Paul meant that people would get new bodies, discontinuous with their old bodies?

WinAce

I think this is more an indictment of the general ridiculousness of the Pharisaic belief in bodily resurrection than Paul's theological views.