Original Sin

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Originally Posted by thephnxman

OK. When I read "physical" body, I envision a "natural" body of flesh.

(1)Phillipians describes the resurrected body as GLORIOUS: even "...the glory that
I had with you before the world was."
When the WORD was made flesh, it took on a "veil" (Heb. 10: 20) of flesh. That's
all the body was, a veil whereby the Lamb could be sacrificed to give us access into
the Holiest Place. The Lord Jesus is to keep that body until he has subdued all things,
including death;

(2) Let me preface this by saying that the kingdom of the son will be forever.
The resurrection will give us "glorious bodies": not physical (natural), but SPIRITUAL. When
all things, and death, are subdued the WORD will be subject to the Father and be as from
the beginning: in its former glory. The Church, as sons and daughters, will also partake
of that same glory and maintain (inherit) the kingdom of the Son!

Brother, it simply says our bodies will be fashioned like His body. And look at the body that came out of the grave to see what that means. It appeared out of nowhere in the locked room where the disciples gathered after the resurrection. It ascended up into heaven. It was very physical since Jesus distinctly said a spirit does not have flesh and bones as He did after the resurrection.

Physical does not mean natural, brother. I did an intensive word study on natural and spiritual. They are used in the same book to describe SPIRITUAL MEAT AND DRINK. Moses gave them manna and water from a rock. Spiritual meat and drink. Were they not physical? That is chapter 10.

1Co 10:3-4 KJV And did all eat the same spiritual meat; (4) And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

Chapter 2 shows both words NATURAL and SPIRITUAL. They are not describing composite material. There is the natural MAN and the spiritual MAN.

1Co 2:14-15 KJV But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. (15) But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.

Does that mean the person is non-physical if he is spiritual and the natural man is physical? Of course not.

It means what INSPIRES.

The word natural refers to the common law of nature. Physics. Natural things cannot be immortal. Nature disallows that. Spiritual simply means SUPERnatural. Motivated by the SPIRIT instead of nature.

Jesus' body was supernatural. It was therefore spiritual. Why? Because it was not physical? Far from it. It was very physical but by no means natural. He proved that.

So there is an assumption you made without realizing it. NATURAL DOES NOT MEAN PHYSICAL.