Naked Bible 88: What is the “spiritual body” Paul talks about in 1 Cor 15?

The Naked Bible Podcast

Dr. Michael S. Heiser

Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 20 February 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This episode focuses on Paul’s language, in 1 Cor 15 and elsewhere, about the “spiritual body” of the resurrected Jesus—a body that believers will also share. In Paul's day, Gentiles (Greco-Roman culture) and Jews (OT) both believed that gods had bodies -- not made of flesh and blood, but of something that was superior to flesh and blood. In other words, gods weren’t simply formless, substance-less “energy” or spirit. Paul taught that Christians would one day share Christ's body—that they would have the same sort of body.

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0:26.6	Welcome to the Naked Bible Podcast episode 88.
0:30.4	What is the spiritual body Paul talks about in 1 Corinthians 15?
0:34.9	I'm your layman, Trace Tricklin.
0:36.9	He's the scholar, Dr. Michael Heizer.
0:38.6	Hey, Mike, how you doing this week?
0:40.6	Very good.
0:41.6	Very good.
0:42.6	Have a good week.
0:43.6	I did, didn't you?
0:44.6	Busy, you know, but yeah, a good week.
0:46.4	Just, you know, a lot to do as usual, but that's a good thing.
0:49.5	So I can't complain about, I'm not, never bored.
0:53.7	What's the spiritual body Paul's talking about?
0:55.7	Yeah, this is kind of an odd, odd sort of topic.
0:59.3	I think people will find it interesting because of its connections back into the old
1:04.0	testament.
1:05.6	And you know, when we, when we think of spiritual body, we probably think of something
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