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If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body. — 1 Corinthians 15:42-44, NIV Christian teaching traditionally interprets Paul as comparing a resurrected body with a mortal body, saying that it will be a different kind of body; a "spiritual body", meaning an immortal body , or incorruptible body (15:53—54). [ 1 ]
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says, "Possibly Jn. 6:33 also includes an allusion to the general life-giving function. This teaching rules out all ideas of an emanation of the soul." [228] and "The soul and the body belong together, so that without either the one or the other there is no true man". [229]
This word is juxtaposed in Romans 8:13 with the term used for 'body' (σῶμα), [16] which more strictly refers to the physical body of a human. Thus in Romans 8:13, Paul draws a parallel between fallen people, with proclivities to sin without chance of redemption, and redeemed people, who are so changed that mortification of their fleshly ...
The concept of an immaterial soul separate from and surviving the body is common today but according to modern scholars, it was not found in ancient Hebrew beliefs. [1] The word nephesh never means an immortal soul [27] or an incorporeal part of the human being [28] that can survive death of the body as the spirit of the dead. [29]
Church members believe that upon mortal death, the spirit body of a person leaves the mortal body and returns to the spiritual realm to await the resurrection. [ 2 ] The resurrection is where God raises the mortal body the spirit personage had lost in mortal death, and converts the mortal body from flesh, bone and blood, into immortal bodies of ...
In Christian theology, conditionalism or conditional immortality is a concept in which the gift of immortality is attached to (conditional upon) belief in Jesus Christ.This concept is based in part upon another biblical argument, that the human soul is naturally mortal, immortality ("eternal life") is therefore granted by God as a gift.
Within it are Bible verses about family that are helpful for every stage of life: childhood, adolescence, adulthood, middle age, and old age. Every family member can find some nugget of wisdom to ...
According to Mormon theology, God the Father is a physical being of "flesh and bones." [13] Mormons identify him as the biblical god Elohim.Latter-day Saint leaders have also taught that God the Father was once a mortal man who has completed the process of becoming an exalted being. [20]