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Just sharing a thought, if someone does not believe the same things that you believe it is not heresy. Heresy is a term that should not be overused and has specific applications.
So you're saying that Adam fellowshipped with the pre-incarnate Son of God, Jesus of Nazareth?Sorry, but you apparently did not read my posts and your response is totally off from what I wrote.
God the Word fellowshipped with Adam in the Garden in the cool of the evening.
That fellowship was with God.
So, you err in your post saying that God did not form the physical body of Adam as the very “tselem” of Him. Note that God has only One Image/Tselem, and that One is God the Word, and Adam was formed, bodily, in that very same “image”. Adam was physically formed to look like the image of God the Word.
No, His body of human flesh that He put on like a garment was not yet put on, and not yet formed in the womb of the virgin until the incarnation, but that image was always one and the same. It did not change, and the body is very much a sanctuary for the Father to indwell, but Adam lost that.
The New Man, Israel, YHWH the WORD, come in 2nd creation flesh, shed His blood as our Redeemer/Kinsman so that we could be cleansed in soul, adopted in Spirit, and adopted in flesh.
Our regenerated flesh will look exactly like us, but without sin, no corruption, no death.
Than the Glory is put on it.
In Romans 5:15, the word used is the same word used for the images used by printing presses which are coated with ink and printed, of themselves, and also, to carved images that can be stamped in clay to imprint exactly the form of carved image.
I gave the Strong’s definition and you said it was not what the English said. That is somehow trying to change the meaning, by yourself.
Also,
In the language of Ro 5:14, "as did Adam who was a pattern of the one to come (Christ)."The Romans 5:14 passage states that Adam was the very “tupos of Him who was to come.
How can you miss that?
Also, when God appeared in His image to the 70 elders of Israel + 4 more, on Mount Sinai, it was His “tselem”, and actual image...they saw.
Explain that.
Also, in Ezekiel 1, God looked like an Adam, in glory, when Ezekiel saw Him on His throne. Explain that.
When Isaiah went to heaven He saw YHWH on His throne, when His train (glory of the garment) filled the temple. In John 12, John said Isaiah saw Jesus at that time. Explain that.
Exodus 24:9-11
Then went up Moses, and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel:
And they saw the God of Israel: and there was under his feet as it were a paved work of a sapphire stone, and as it were the body of heaven in his clearness.
And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.
Eze 1:25 -28
And there was a voice from the firmament that was over their heads, when they stood, and had let down their wings.
And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone: and upon the likeness of the throne was the likeness as the appearance of ADAM above upon it.
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the LORD2828. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.
Isaiah 6:1
In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.
John 12:37 -41
But though he had done so many miracles before them, yet they believed not on him:
That the saying of Esaias the prophet might be fulfilled, which he spake, Lord, who hath believed our report? and to whom hath the arm of the Lord been revealed?
Therefore they could not believe, because that Esaias said again,
He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.
These things said Esaias, when he saw his glory, and spake of him.
You seem to be a bit confused.
Adam, in his flesh body was in Paradise, in Mount Eden, in the third heaven, in fellowship with God the Word, with access to the Tree of Life, there.
I suspect it will be able to de-materialize and pass through matter (walls) and re-materialize, as we see Jesus' doing after the resurrection.
I love the Word of God and I read it with “open eyes”.Where is it written that Adam in God's Garden of Eden was in the third heaven? You are making that up.
In Genesis 2, God's Garden of Eden was ON EARTH. And that is where God formed Adam from the dust of the GROUND. As shown in Ecclesiastes 12:5-7, our flesh is made from the earthly elements, and the earth is where God formed Adam's flesh.
Another proof that God's Eden was ON EARTH when He formed Adam was the fact that God's River in Eden flowed out to feed four other rivers UPON THE EARTH, two of which are still on earth today, Euphrates and Tigris (or Hiddikel). This is what Genesis 2 shows.
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What reason would you give for why we will have and/or need a physical body in heaven?
Damnable heresies touch the Person or work of the LORD Jesus Christ.If an idea goes against the written Word of God, then it is a heresy. And that is not my opinion.
Yes.Because by our nature we have bodies.
What reason would you give for why we will have and/or need a physical body in heaven?
First, Jesus' physical body is in heaven now since he had it after he was resurrected.
Second, our physical bodies will be resurrected when Jesus returns with out souls from heaven. We won't have our bodies in heaven while we await the time when our souls will return to be reunited with our perfected, resurrected bodies.
Third, when we will be resurrected, Jesus will create the new heavens and new earth (new universe) in which we will live forever (pictured as the new Jerusalem [all believers] coming down to the new earth), as Revelation describes symbolically in chapters 21 and 22.
Yes.
We are soul/persons and our body is our house, as Scripture says.
it is an open question and there seems to be many different views expressed in this thread. I am interested in what people believe not in what is theologically the correct answer.Are you asking this from the view point that, that is where a believer spends eternity.
A spiritual body does not mean non-material, non-physical.That's following men's traditions, not actual Bible Scripture.
In 1 Corinthians 15, which is the Chapter giving detail of what type body the resurrection is, Apostle Paul taught the resurrection body is a "spiritual body", not a flesh body. And Paul gave other descriptors with it, pointing to the "image of the heavenly". And he also said flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, neither does corruption inherit incorruption.
Thing is though,
"Flesh and blood" is Paul's usage for the natural (corruptible--decaying, sinful, weak) physical body, which will not be in the eternal kingdom of God, no sin being allowed there, only thethe body of the resurrection, which is of the heavenly dimension, is not... another flesh body:
1 Cor 15:49-50
49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.KJV
If an idea goes against the written Word of God, then it is a heresy. And that is not my opinion.
A spiritual body does not mean non-material, non-physical.
Paul never uses "spiritual" to mean non-material, non-physical.
Paul ALWAYS uses "spiritual" to mean the domain of the Holy Spirit.
The spiritual physical body, in contrast to the natural physical body, is incorruptible (non-decaying), sinless and glorious, a work of the Holy Spirit, but Jesus said it is still flesh and bones (Luke 24:39).
You are the one not following the "actual Bible Scripture" of Luke 24:39, but are superimposing your own view opon it.
Jesus own words in Luke 24:38-39 contradict you, which you continually fail to address. Enough!If you mean by the word "physical" a flesh body, then no, it is not a physical body. If you mean by the word 'physical' that it has form and shape to look like a flesh body, then yes, that is how it appears, and that proof is from Scripture witness.
Precisely!!!Paul used the word "spiritual" with the word 'body' when speaking of the "image of the heavenly" in 1 Corinthians15.
No. . .you are misunderstanding Paul!Thus you are misquoting Paul.
The "natural body" Paul mentioned is the flesh corruptible body.
1) There is no "image of the heavenly" in that text, there is only "heavenly bodies" of sun, moon and stars.The "spiritual body" he mentioned is the "image of the heavenly" he also mentioned in the 1 Cor.15 chapter.
Oh but I am following The Bible Scripture, as written. It is you that is following a tradition of men that the dead are literally asleep in the ground until the resurrection. What you're not understanding per God's Word is that there are TWO different dimensions of existence, this earthly one and the heavenly one. The heavenly dimension is one of Spirit (as a substance). It is not of material matter. It's simply a different dimension. That is how Lord Jesus in His resurrected body was able to suddenly appear and disappear to His disciples. His resurrection body did not have to change to a flesh body to do that. His resurrection body stayed of that same heavenly dimension when He appeared here on earth to His disciples. This was true even more so before... He was born of woman into a flesh body as the Genesis 18 example shows. He and the two angels when appearing to Abraham were not in flesh bodies to do that. They were in the heavenly image type body, yet that body can live and walk upon this earth as that example reveals, along with Genesis 19.
So like Lord Jesus showed in John 3, that which is born of the flesh is flesh, and that which is born of The Spirit is spirit. By that He showed the two separate dimensions. Our spirit with soul is of the heavenly dimension, and it is attached to our flesh body with a "silver cord" (Eccl.12); that is the two dimensions existing together here on earth. When the flesh part dies it goes back to the earthly elements where it came from. But our spirit with soul goes back to God, i.e., manifests in the heavenly dimension where it's original home is.
This further explained means that whichever dimension we are in, either in this earthly one, or after having died and in the heavenly dimension, we still need a 'body' for our soul to manifest with. On earth that body type is a flesh body. In the heavenly the body type is a 'spirit' body, a.k.a. "spiritual body" named by Apostle Paul. This is why the testimony by the actor Clint Walker is right on, because at his ski pole accident going through his heart, he said he suddenly found himself in that other body, and said it felt really good, and that he suddenly knew things he didn't know before. Then he felt there was still something here in this life he needed to do, so he asked God to let him come back. He is written up in medical journals as a miracle case, because he was pronounced dead and was so long without oxygen that he should have been a vegetable when he came to.
Jesus own words in Luke 24:38-39 contradict you, which you continually fail to address. Enough!
Precisely!!!
And because "spiritual" never means non-material, non-physical with Paul, we know that the spiritual body is physical!
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