"What exactly is wrong with this:"
There's a whole lot wrong with it.
"and was raised from the dead as the firstfruit of the resurrection. We believe Scripture teaches Christ would come again within the lifetime of some of His original twelve disciples (Matthew 16:27-28) to raise the dead out of Hades and judge all nations."
First of all, the word "would" should say "did". History, and all the early church fathers and Creeds say that return of Christ is yet to happen. It didn't happen Brian, stop lying to yourself and others.
Secondly; The Resurrection is a bodily and physical. Your statement avoids the issue of the nature of the resurrection body but the truth is you deny the physical bodily resurrection of both Christ and those who are His at His coming. Here is a very scholarly defence of the "The Bodily Resurrection of Jesus" by Craig. It's long but it's worth the read.
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"Paul's doctrine of the nature of the resurrection body now becomes clear. When a Christian dies, his conscious spirit or soul goes to be with Christ until the Parousia, while his body lies in the grave. When Christ returns, in a single instant the remains of the natural body are transformed into a powerful, glorious, and imperishable supernatural body under the complete lordship and direction of the Spirit, and the soul of the departed is simultaneously reunited with the body, and the man is raised to everlasting life. Then those who are alive will be similarly transformed, the old body miraculously changed intro the new without exess, and all believers will go to be with the Lord.
This doctrine teaches us much about Paul's conception of the resurrection body of Christ. In no sense did Paul conceive Christ's resurrection body to be immaterial or unextended. The notion of an immaterial, unextended body seems to be a self- contradiction; the nearest thing to it would be a shade in Sheol, and this was certainly not Paul's conception of Christ's glorious resurrection body!" |
