15:35 What is the point of these questions Paul raises here?
15:35 What is the point of these questions Paul raises here?
Paul pre-empts the doubters here by raising these questions himself which he then goes on to answer (CP V36-38).
By using the analogy of a seed planted in the ground that dies and produces a new bodily form, Paul illustrates how God will give believers who die a new resurrection body (CP V39-41).
Here Paul explains that with so many bodies already existing in God's created universe - both earthly and heavenly, and so vastly different from each other - creating a new resurrection body for believers who die is nothing out of the ordinary (CP V42-44).
The believer's old body is subject to corruption - death - but their new resurrection body will be incorruptible - it will never die - just like Jesus' body. It will never again be shamed by the vileness of sin, but will forever be glorified.
It will never again be weak and sickly, but will forever be strong, and it will never again be just a natural human body, but will forever be a supernatural spiritual body.
Paul then goes on to say that the first man, Adam, was made a living being, but the second Adam - Jesus - was made a life-giving spirit.
Every human being received their natural bodies through the first Adam, but every believer who dies will receive their supernatural spiritual bodies through Jesus.
Adam's body was the prototype of the natural, Christ's is the prototype of the supernatural (CP V45-49).
Every human being has a body like Adam, but in the resurrection every believer will have a body like Jesus (CP V54-58 with Php 3:20-21; Col 3:4; 1 Jn 3:2). See also comments on Php 3:20-21; 1Cor 15:51-58 and 1Jn 3:2.