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To: kerryusama04
Recall also that those who take part in the first resurrection will be priests of God. The folks who are resurrected in Ezekiel 37 are the "whole house of Israel", are you telling me that the "whole house of Israel" and "my people" are doomed to the resurrection of judgement? That's absolutely ridiculous.

The "resurrection of judgment" isn't the "resurrection of condemnation". Compare "judgment" to a trial. The "judgment" process doesn't just consist of a guilty or not guilty. The process is the whole trial. Evidence is presented, evidence is collected.

Rom 11:25 For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fullness of the Gentiles be come in.
Rom 11:26 And so all Israel shall be saved: as it is written, There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer, and shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

Now, you keep posting that bit about flesh and bone inheritting the kingdom. If you read the whole chapter, it appears that Paul is talking to some really smart pagans trying to tell them that the things of this world are perishable, and that they ought to keep their minds set on the things above. A literal interpretation of those passages leads directly to Gnosticism, do not pass go.

I don't think a literal interpretation leads to gnosticism. Paul was taking great pains to make it clear exactly how the first resurrection is to be manifested.

1Co 15:35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

He's answering a specific question, and he's being literal:

1Co 15:36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:
1Co 15:37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:
1Co 15:38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.
1Co 15:39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.
1Co 15:40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.
1Co 15:41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.
1Co 15:42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:
1Co 15:43 It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:
1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
1Co 15:46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man is of the earth, earthy: the second man is the Lord from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,
1Co 15:52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.
1Co 15:53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.
1Co 15:54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.

33 posted on 02/21/2007 8:06:08 PM PST by DouglasKC
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To: DouglasKC
The "resurrection of judgment" isn't the "resurrection of condemnation". Compare "judgment" to a trial. The "judgment" process doesn't just consist of a guilty or not guilty. The process is the whole trial. Evidence is presented, evidence is collected.

The resurrection of judgment and the resurrection of damnation are exactly the same resurrection.

NASB

Joh 5:28 "Do not marvel at this; for an hour is coming, in which all who are in the tombs will hear His voice,
Joh 5:29 and will come forth; those who did the good deeds to a resurrection of life, those who committed the evil deeds to a resurrection of judgment.

KJV

Joh 5:28 Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29 And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

35 posted on 02/21/2007 8:33:31 PM PST by kerryusama04 (Isa 8:20, Eze 22:26)
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