Some opening comments about the Resurrection. It is a very good thing, to want to know what happens after body death and what happens to the human body. Having proved the fact of the resurrection, the apostle comes to illustrate its nature, or to teach with what kind of bodies the dead are to rise. Paul says this is a foolish assumption. Our future bodies may be material and identical with our present bodies, and yet organized in a very different way.
Matter admits of indefinite varieties in organization.
There is not only immense diversity in the vegetable productions of the earth, but even flesh is variously modified in the different orders of animals, vs. 38, 39. This is true not only as to the earth, for there are heavenly as well as earthly bodies. Such not only may be, but will be the case. This is according to Scripture. As Adam was before Christ, so our early tabernacles are before our heavenly ones.