Bodily Resurrection And 1 Corinthians 15: 42-54

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city which
made it very conducive to the early Christian movement. Paul's first letter to
the Corinthians was written as a response to a letter he had received (which did
not survive) from the Corinthians in which Paul was asked to settle various
disputes that were arising within the struggling congregation. Writing in
apostolic fashion to the congregation he had founded, Paul's letter while
pastoral, answered numerous questions and demanded numerous changes ranging
from: the rich eating with the poor at the church suppers (11:18-22); to curbing
the acceptance of sexual immorality (5:1-13); to abstaining from taking fellow
Christians to court (6:12-20); to answering the question on the acceptability of
eating meat begot from pagan sacrifice (8:1-13); to the role of women in the
church (11:2-16); to the importance of prophesying (14:1-40); and much, much
more.
It was under these auspices that Paul answered the question of whether
man would be with or without a body ...

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the mortal body �putting on' immortality.
The nearly tautological backbone behind Paul's reasoning is that the since the
mortal, by definition isn't immortal, in order to gain an eternal life, the
mortal must necessarily become immortal. As Wrede interestingly interprets it, "
If the misery of man consists in his habitation in the flesh, his happiness must
depend on his liberation from the flesh, that is, on his death." Moreover, once
immortality is put on, death, the previously inevitable enemy of the mortal,
will be destroyed. As Paul crisply writes in verse 54, "When this perishable
body puts on imperishability, and this mortal body puts on immortality, then the
saying that is written ...

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