Keeping in mind that according to all NT teaching, only the redeemed sons of God are in Christ.
Now trying to re-coup your credibility in the Scriptures I see? What I posted is per God's Word 'as written'. So be careful, or I'll embarrass your lack of Scripture understanding again.
In both texts, the meaning is, "all those in Adam (i.e., his descendants) die. . . . .made sinners,
while all those in Christ (i.e., who are related to him by faith) will be made alive. . . . .righteous.
NOPE! By that you just TRIED to make the fact that ALL men die because of Adam's sin to mean Adam's seed ONLY. Your idea is a bunch of balderdash, and not written in God's Word! Apostle Paul was pointing to ALL MEN (AND WOMEN) BORN IN THE FLESH, not specifically Adam's seed.
Strike 1 against you for pushing falseness.
#2) Likewise, according to Paul's usage of the words:
natural - sinful, mortal, weak,
spiritual - (of the Holy Spirit) sinless, immortal, perfect (Paul does not mean immaterial, non-physical here, as spiritual is commonly used),
flesh - natural body (sinful, mortal, weak)--1 Co 15:50
the natural physical body (prior to death) is sinful, mortal, weak, and
the spiritual physical body (of the resurrection of those in Christ) is sinless, immortal, perfect.
Apostle Paul WAS NOT CONTRASTING MORAL CONCEPTS in 1 Corinthians 15:44.
He was contrasting BODY TYPES, the flesh body vs. the future glorious spiritual body.
1 Cor 15:44
44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
KJV
And when one gets to verse 50, like you quoted above, the subject is that no one can inherit God's future Kingdom by flesh and blood, pointing to the flesh "natural body" Paul was pointing to.
1 Cor 15:50
50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.
KJV
But you had the audacity... to speak the following false idea about the word "
spiritual" against that very 1 Cor.15:44 verse above...
Clare73 said:
"(Paul does not mean immaterial, non-physical here, as spiritual is commonly used)"
You even used the word "non-physical", intentionally trying to scoot around the fact that Paul is speaking of the "spiritual body" as being of Spirit, NON-FLESH. And that is why... Paul said flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God in verse 50 that you also tried to use! The word "immaterial" in case you don't know what that word means, it means NON-FLESH AND BLOOD, not earthly material matter to get technical about it.
So strike 2 against you're not staying with the written Scripture.
Paul neither treats of the resurrection of, nor presents a description of the resurrection bodies of, those not in Christ and who are damned.
Well yeah, Paul did, and I revealed it. It is with those 4 Greek words of 1 Cor.15:53 that I translated per the Strong's Exhaustive Concordance. You simply failed to pay attention to it and understand its meaning. You probably still won't understand the simply breakdown of that verse below that I will do for you, but still it's up to you whether you believe what Paul was pointing to in the Greek there, or not...
1 Cor 15:53-54
53 For this corruptible (flesh body state) must put on incorruption ("spiritual body", a heavenly type body), and this mortal (liable to die soul) must put on immortality (deathlessness, eternal life in Christ Jesus)
.
(words in black my emphasis)
Apostle Paul above was pointing to
TWO TYPES OF CHANGES that MUST happen in order to have eternal life through Jesus Christ.
1) one's material flesh "corruptible" body must be "changed" to the "spiritual body".
AND
2) one's mortal liable to perish mortal soul MUST put on "immortality" through Faith on Jesus Christ and receive eternal life.
That's TWO TYPES OF CHANGES, not one like you are used to thinking.
54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, "Death is swallowed up in victory."
KJV
In the above, Paul even REPEATS that idea in verse 53. And then says only then by going through BOTH CHANGES... will the saying in Isaiah 25,
"Death is swallowed up in victory" be true.
You DO realize Paul was quoting from Isaiah 25 with that
"Death is swallowed up in victory", don't you?
So now, think for a moment about those TWO REQUIRED CHANGES Paul revealed that MUST happen in order to be part of Christ's Salvation. And we CANNOT JUST THROW OUT understanding in the REST of The New Testament just because Paul didn't make a specific statement about the unsaved here in 1 Cor.15!
So think for yourself for a moment.
If a soul DOES NOT GO THROUGH THAT 2ND CHANGE, of "this mortal" putting on "immortality", then WHO does that mean?? It means the UNSAVED. How? Because in Revelation 20 we are told about ONLY those of the "first resurrection" are saved when Jesus comes and starts His future Millennial reign over the unsaved nations. It even reveals a place of separation for Christ's elect upon the earth from the nations called "the camp of the saints"! (Revelation 20:9)
And don't you remember the spiritually dead metaphors that Lord Jesus used in The Gospel? He said about the blind scribes and Pharisees how they were like whited tombs that appear nice and clean on the outside, but inside were full of dead men's bones (Matthew 23:27). And in another place, Jesus said they were like graves that men walk over, and are not aware of them (Luke 11:44). That is about the idea of the 'spiritually dead', those whose soul's are in a
liable to die (NT:2348 -
thnetos) state still subject to being cast into the future "lake of fire". That means the UNSAVED. And that is what the Rev.20 idea of the "second death" is about.
So even though Paul does not spell out specific words in 1 Cor.15 about the wicked unsaved souls, he was pointing to them INDIRECTLY with showing those TWO TYPES OF CHANGES of verse 53-54 that one MUST go through in order to have eternal life through Christ Jesus.
And it is a SIMPLE matter of understanding that the UNSAVED will NOT have their still liable to die souls put on immortality without Christ Jesus. So there's Paul pointing to the wicked spiritually dead. And the spiritually dead, meaning those who still reject Jesus Christ and are UNSAVED, that is even who the "dead" are in Rev.20:5. In that future Millennium reign by Christ, all... will be in the "spiritual body" type, but the UNSAVED will still have liable to die souls, because of not having Faith on Jesus Christ. We know that cannot apply to the "first resurrection" in Christ who will have gone through BOTH changes no.1 and no.2, and have eternal life through Faith on Jesus Christ. All this may sound difficult, but it's really not.