Comments on: This changes everything… http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/05/this-changes-everything.html A random walk over culture, art, christianity, etc. with occasional photographs... Wed, 07 Jul 2010 10:30:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Steven Carr http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/05/this-changes-everything.html/comment-page-1#comment-61 Steven Carr Sat, 16 Jun 2007 23:55:00 +0000 http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/?p=194#comment-61 Paul explains that heavenly and earthly beings are made out of different materials.<br /><br />So a corpse cannot become a heavenly body, no more than a fish can turn into the moon.<br /><br />It is not my fault that Paul did not know that celestial things are made out of the same matter as earthly things.<br /><br />It took science many centuries to find that out. Paul explains that heavenly and earthly beings are made out of different materials.

So a corpse cannot become a heavenly body, no more than a fish can turn into the moon.

It is not my fault that Paul did not know that celestial things are made out of the same matter as earthly things.

It took science many centuries to find that out.

]]> By: Paul http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/05/this-changes-everything.html/comment-page-1#comment-62 Paul Sat, 16 Jun 2007 21:15:00 +0000 http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/?p=194#comment-62 Why do you assume that things from heaven are not physical? You seem to assume that Paul was a follower of Plato.<br /><br />(And for that matter, why do you think that the moon is not physical? ;-) Why do you assume that things from heaven are not physical? You seem to assume that Paul was a follower of Plato.

(And for that matter, why do you think that the moon is not physical? ;-)

]]> By: Steven Carr http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/2007/05/this-changes-everything.html/comment-page-1#comment-63 Steven Carr Sat, 16 Jun 2007 08:36:00 +0000 http://paulnorridge.co.uk/instamatic/?p=194#comment-63 Why did early converts to Jesus-worship in Corinth scoff at the idea that God would choose to raise corpses?<br /><br />Why does Paul tell them that Jesus became a spirit?<br /><br />Why does Paul call them idiots for even discussing how a corpse can return from the dead - telling them that you do not plant the body that will be?<br /><br />Why does he remind them that earthly beings differ from heavenly beings the way that a fish differs from the moon?<br /><br />Why does he trash the idea that God would make resurrected beings from the dust of the earth , as follows <br /><br />'The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.'<br /><br /><br />Why does Paul plead in Romans 7:24 for somebody to rescue him from his body of death?<br /><br />All this and more, is ignored by Wright. Why did early converts to Jesus-worship in Corinth scoff at the idea that God would choose to raise corpses?

Why does Paul tell them that Jesus became a spirit?

Why does Paul call them idiots for even discussing how a corpse can return from the dead – telling them that you do not plant the body that will be?

Why does he remind them that earthly beings differ from heavenly beings the way that a fish differs from the moon?

Why does he trash the idea that God would make resurrected beings from the dust of the earth , as follows

‘The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.’

Why does Paul plead in Romans 7:24 for somebody to rescue him from his body of death?

All this and more, is ignored by Wright.

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