THOUGHTS ON 1 CORINTHIANS 15.
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF RESURRECTION
These verses come readily to mind.
19 And if our hope in CHRIST is only for this life, we are more to be pitied than anyone in the world.
35 But someone may ask, “How will the dead be raised? What kind of bodies will they have?”
36 What a foolish question! When you put a seed into the ground, it doesn’t grow into a plant unless it dies first.
37 And what you put in the ground is not the plant that will grow, but only a bare seed of wheat or whatever you are planting.
38 Then GOD gives it the new body he wants it to have.
42 It is the same way with the resurrection of the dead. Our earthly bodies are planted in the ground when we die, but they will be raised to live forever.
53. For our dying bodies must be transformed into bodies that will never die; our mortal bodies must be transformed into immortal bodies
51. But let me reveal to you a wonderful secret. We will not all die, but we will all be transformed!
52 It will happen in a moment, in the blink of an eye, when the last trumpet is blown. For when the trumpet sounds, those who have died will be raised to live forever. And we who are living will also be transformed
