Chapter 12: 1 Corinthians: A Church Divided

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From Chapter 12: 1 Corinthians: A Church Divided - Did Paul believe in a bodily resurrection? Defend your position from 1 Corinthians.

I believe that Paul did believe in bodily resurrection. Because the body without the spirit is not thought of. The way think Paul thought about this is that a animal is a body without a spirt and that a animal. A sprit without a body is a angel. Nether of these are able to be resurrection by the body. The reason this is because the body and the spirt go together and become one. In the days of Paul there where many Jewish people who did not believe in bodily resurrection. Another way to look at this is was Jesus Christ just spiritual redirected or was his body resurrected to heaven as well. I believe based

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