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possible sense did Jesus have a resur-
rection?
If things were az Russell represents
how could Jesus be cleared from the
charge of willful deception? If Jesus
was a spirit being after His resurrec-
ton, and He assumed q phantom body
to assure his Disciples that he had
flesh and bones and was therefore not
a spirit Ouke 24:39) 7 wonder how
anyone could clear jesus OF fraud.
AS to how that flesh and bone" body
vanished or passed through closed
doors, it is enough to know that Christ
so taught and showed himself. Secret
things belong to God; revealed things
to us and to our children" says the
Book. And all the things and ''hows"
God Will explain to us some sweet day
If we believe Him and do not make
Him a liar.
Paul showed that there is an an
alogy between seed dropped in the
earth and what comes of It, on the
one hand and the burial and resurrec-
ton of the body on the other. We SOW
wheat, and when 1t comes forth if Is
not just the thing we sowed. The bare
grain we SOW does not come up. So
the new body shall be different from
this present body. Still that which
comes forth is that which / have sown.
I sOWed wheat (the grain), and wheat
came up-in a different stage and
state and dress, yet wheat. And there
Is an essential connection between the
body that was buried and that which
shall be, just as there is between the
grain that is sOwn and the stalk that
comes of it. For this reason Paul
warns the christian not to dishonor
the present body" The body is not
for foTnication, but for the Lord; and
the Lord for the body: and God both
raised up the Lord, and will raise up
us through his power. Know We
not that your bodies are members Of
Christ? Shall l then take away the
mebers of a harlot? God forbid. Or
know We not that he that is Joined
TO a harlot is one of body with herr
for, the twain. saith he shall become
one flesh. But he that is Joined to
the Lord is one spirit (This is the
thing that unites our bodies to him
and makes them His members, be
cause his spirit dwells in us and we
spiritually dwell in Him. Then i'm
plying that fornication in some way
breaks into this relationship, he says
il is the one sin that is against the
body" For our body, this present
physical body, is the temple of the
Holy Spirit, and does not belong to
us, for God has purchased it for him
SELF with a pFlCe. thGaQ 1. Cor. d: 10
20) It is not strange, therefore, to
hear the apostle declaring that the
Lord will reclaim it. 1T is sown in
corruption; it is raised in corruption:
it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in
glory: it is soWn in weakness; it is
raised in power" Now the thing that
was sown in corruption, dishonor,
weakness that is the thing which is
What is it? TT is sown a natural
body; it is raised a spiritual body
The word here translated natural is
''psychicos" from psyche" the soul.
The word SPIRITUAL is ''pneumaticos'
from ''pneuma" the spirit. The pres
ert body is a physical a soulish body
the seat and instrument Of the soul
but the body that shall be, shall be
the perfect instrument of the spirit
THE first man, Adam" he goes on to
say, became a living soul" The last
Adam became a life-giving spirit" II
that proves that Christ is simply
a Spirit being" now { without any
such body as he possessed in Luke
24:39), it also shows that Adam had
no material body but was only a SOU
wandering about. For even the inter
prefers that hold the soul to be moth
ing more than the animal life admit
that the term living soul" is figura-
| lively applied to the whole man. body
| and all, because the soul" is the