{"id":2532,"date":"2013-09-16T05:00:59","date_gmt":"2013-09-16T11:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2532"},"modified":"2022-04-22T08:29:47","modified_gmt":"2022-04-22T14:29:47","slug":"1-corinthians-1545-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/?p=2532","title":{"rendered":"1 Corinthians 15:45-50"},"content":{"rendered":"

45\u00a0<\/sup>And so it is written,\u00a0\u201cThe first man Adam became a living being.\u201d\u00a0The last Adam\u00a0became\u00a0a life-giving spirit.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

46\u00a0<\/sup>However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

47\u00a0<\/sup>The first man\u00a0was\u00a0of the earth,made\u00a0of dust; the second Man\u00a0is\u00a0the Lord\u00a0from heaven.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

48\u00a0<\/sup>As\u00a0was\u00a0the\u00a0man\u00a0of dust, so also\u00a0are\u00a0those\u00a0who are made\u00a0of dust; and as\u00a0is\u00a0the heavenly\u00a0Man,\u00a0so also\u00a0are\u00a0those\u00a0who are\u00a0heavenly.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

49\u00a0<\/sup>And as we have borne the image of the\u00a0man\u00a0of dust, we shall also bear\u00a0the image of the heavenly\u00a0Man.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

50\u00a0<\/sup>Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.<\/span><\/em><\/h3>\n

written (v.45) \u2014 Genesis 2:7<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n

Adam (v.45) \u2014 had life, but couldn’t give life to others<\/h3>\n

spiritual is not first (v.46) \u2014 Humans begin with only the natural life and then receive the spiritual<\/h3>\n

of the earth (v.47) \u2014 Adam was formed of the dust of the ground<\/h3>\n

earthy (v.47) = lit. “dusty, muddy” \u2014 referring to origin and characteristics<\/h3>\n

the Lord (v.47) \u2014 not in the best manuscripts<\/h3>\n

From Adam all members of the human race spring. From Christ all members of the new world of Christian men spring. After creating Adam, the creative process ceased. From Adam the race springs by natural law. After Christ the incarnation ceased. From Him the new race springs by spiritual law. \u2014 Laurin, page 296.<\/span><\/h3>\n

heavenly (v.48) \u2014 referring to origin (in the sense of where He was from) and characteristics<\/h3>\n

those who are made of dust (v.48) \u2014 those descended from Adam \u2014 humanity \u2014 those who take on his characteristics<\/h3>\n

those who are heavenly (v.48) \u2014 those who receive spiritual life from Christ are “seated together with Christ in heavenly places” and take on heavenly characteristics<\/h3>\n

Just as surely as we now bear the image of the muddy old Adam so surely shall we bear the image of the heavenly Adam. Alas, in this sinful state here below we show His image all too little! God predestinated us to be conformed to the image of His Son (Romans 8:29<\/span><\/a>) and His predetermination shall not fail but will be fully realized some day. Old Adam’s impress is still in the way. The world is in the way and our sinful old self is still marring our likeness to the Son. With our humiliated bodies we still bear the stamp of old Adam, the mud man, but spiritually we are already united to the second Man from heaven, and no power in heaven, earth or hell can break the bonds that binds us to Him. By looking unto Him we undergo even now a spiritual transformation (2 Corinthians 3:18<\/span><\/a>); but at the resurrection His mighty energy shall make even our bodies like unto the body of His glory (Philippians 3:21<\/span><\/a>). \u2014 Bultema, page 146<\/span><\/h3>\n

image (v.49) = representation and manifestation (Romans 8:29<\/span><\/a>; 1 John 3:2)<\/h3>\n

The two questions raised in verse 35<\/span><\/a> have been completely answered. As to the first, it has been show that, instead of resurrection being impossible on account of the condition of the body after death, that very condition is essentially preliminary to resurrection, for it involves the principle of a new life. And as to the second, the resurrection body is to be in the likeness of that of the risen Lord. \u2014 Vine, page 115.<\/span><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

45\u00a0And so it is written,\u00a0\u201cThe first man Adam became a living being.\u201d\u00a0The last Adam\u00a0became\u00a0a life-giving spirit. 46\u00a0However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual. 47\u00a0The first man\u00a0was\u00a0of the earth,made\u00a0of dust; the second Man\u00a0is\u00a0the Lord\u00a0from heaven. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1-corinthians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2532"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6965,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2532\/revisions\/6965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/versebyverse.carpelibra.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}