I AM

I AM : M. M. Ninan
soul. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob are not dead. They are still living.
Luke’s version points out to the bodily resurrection that is to come
in a later time. Yes man will be resurrected in body. But the
relationships between man and woman and man and man are
different, because they are the children of resurrection. They are
like angels because they do not reproduce any more. Therefore, the
question of marriage does not arise.
Paul was a Pharisee and he claimed it to the end. So there is no
question of interpreting any of his statements regarding
resurrection other than bodily resurrection. In fact, at least in one
occasion he used his pharisaic faith in resurrection to win over the
Pharisee group against the Sadducees in his trial.
Acts 23:6-8 Then Paul, knowing that some of them were Sadducees and
the others Pharisees, called out in the Sanhedrin, "My brothers, I am a
Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee. I stand on trial because of my hope in the
resurrection of the dead." When he said this, a dispute broke out between
the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. (The
Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, and that there are neither
angels nor spirits, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.)
Then Paul unequivocally states that he has the same hope as that of
the Pharisees.
Acts 24:15 and I have the same hope in God as these men, that there will
be a resurrection of both the righteous and the wicked.
Any attempt to distort Paul’s teachings to mean anything other
than bodily resurrection would be a distortion of historical reality.
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