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jadeitedrake0 said:
So, Pilgrim, are we looking here at a literal corpse? If yes, you are left to explain the reduction to absurdity I've produced earlier. If no, then what "corpse" are we talking about here?
Sorry, but I can no longer follow your "logic" on this topic..... "lala land" isn't a place I care to venture. You posited that a dead body and a corpse were decidedly different things and challenged everyone who holds a different view to show you your error. This I did in several ways. Now you want to know if the "corpse" is literal? When I die, my corpse, aka: dead body will be disposed of by whoever is in charge of that task. When the Lord returns, that dead body, aka: corpse, most likely will have returned to the earth having decomposed to its basic elements, will be resurrected by the command of the Lord and transformed into a spiritual body which is meet for dwelling on the New Earth.

Now, I have asked you previously, what is it, if not this same body/corpse, that will be resurrected on that great day when the Lord returns? I also provided for you the example of the Lord Christ's body which was transformed after death and which ascended into the heavens to be with the Father and which was recognized and handled by the disciples. This I understand to be what the body of all believers will resemble also.

So, in short.. YES... the body of necessity must be a literal body.

In His grace,

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