The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1892-05-25
A KNoTTY PROBLEM.
With what Sort Of . Body Shall We Appear
After Death


After Death.
DEAR FRIENDS OF THE II. L. Glow
shall we appear With what body shall
we come forth? What constitutes the man
that is to rise again? Does the scripture
teach that our physical body shall rise
again?
There are few texts that, read alone,
seem to imply that it does, but when read
with their context and compared to the
other scriptures they loose that signif-
canoe Take the three passages In the Old
testament most often quoted as evidence.
Isaiah, XVI, 10: Ezekiel xxxvii, lilo, and
Daniel xii, ,. The first two refer to the
moral deafness of the Jews, before the re-
moval TO Babylon. See Ezekiel xxxvii. II,
and the latter 10 similar state at the
coming of Christ Not TO the end of time,
for by comparing the sixth, seventh and
eleventh verses of this chapter, Daniel
xii, we find that at farthest within 1850
years from the fall of Jerusalem the
prophecy OF verse must have been full
filed. That is by A. D. 1860. The script
ure certainly teaches that there is to be
resurrection of the dead. That those who
have fallen asleep shall be awakened.
But what is it that sleeps, not the body,
for sleep is state of rest, while ordinarily
the body Is decomposed. 1t is the spirit
that rests. John saw them under the
altar at the opening of the fifth seal,
and they were hidden to rest yet
little time. Revelations vi, GIL.
In III Corinthians iv, 16-IS, Paul speaks
of the outward man decaying, but our in
ward man is renewed day by day, and says
the things that are seen are temporal, but
the things that are not seen are eternal.
Paul believed that the spirit could exist
without the body. See ii Corinthians xii,
2: It is the spirit that is in the likeness
of God, for God Is spirit. John iv, q:
And it is the spirit of man, not the flesh,
for that that is born OF flesh is flesh, and
that which is born of spirit is spirit. John
Iii. 8: The spirit is the divine part of
man. at is the spirit that quickens, the
flesh profits nothing" John vi, 90.
Christ told Martha that whosoever
liveth and believeth into Ne shall never
die, John Xxi, %. But no one will claim
that He meant that the body is immortal
The belief in the resurrection of the
body appears TO have originated in Egypt
and was probably founded upon the as
sumption that the body was necessary for
the spirit and the Egyptian took great
pains to preserve the body to have it
ready for the spirit at the resurrection.
It appears that it was from Egypt that
the early Christians got their belief in the
resurrection OF the body. We are told
that in the resurrection. they are as the
angels; that spirits have not flesh and
and bones; that flesh and blood can not
inherit the kingdom of Heaven. Luke
Xxx. 90; q, 80; Corinthians, Is, 80.
j have used the revised version in nv
quotations so far, but shall refer to the
Greek in speaking of the famous fifteenth
chapter of First Corinthians, because
there is an idea conveyed in the Greek
that lie lost in all our versions. In verse
10 the Greek is: "If dead ones awake not.
not even Christ has been raised. Through
out the chapter, in referring to Christ. the
active or passive Is used, while in speak
Ing of the believers the middle voice is al
ways used. Like Christ and other apostles,
Paul speaks of death as sleep and the
resurrection Greek. standing or rising
up an awakening. The Greek also i'm
niles separation-Rom. vi, IL: dead to
sin" This is the death he speaks of in
verse SO: That which thou sowest is not
ouickened except IL die" The vitality
must leave the seed If the plant grows.
The material of the seed remains in the
soil. II lie only the lie that continues in
the new plant. Sc the spirit of man must
leave the mortal body to be fit for the new
state.
In verse A be tells us there is a natural
body and spiritual body. In ii Cor. V.
II ''If the earthly home of our bodily
frame be dissolved We have a building OF
God, home not made in hands eternal in
the heavens. For indeed We that are in
this bodily frame do erosn, being bur-
dened in that We would not be unclothed
but be clothed upon" and further on,
knowing that while we are at home in
the body we are absent from the Lord"