1 CORINTHIANS—NOTE ON 1 Corinthians 15:44 Paul’s contrast between natural and spiritual is a contrast between that which is temporally alive and that which is eternal (compare 1 Corinthians 2:14). Starting from Genesis 2:7, Paul explains that God created Adam from the dust and animated him with breath. Christ, however, is the last Adam. His resurrection gave him a “spiritual” and therefore imperishable body (compare Philippians 3:21). spiritual body. Not a ghostly, immaterial body but a body animated and empowered by the Holy Spirit.

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