Hi Duane,
Concerning part 2 of your last post.
Part two: We know that the resurrected body will be "spirit" so how you "burn a spirit" is unknown to me. (SEE Ray's tome on the "Lazarus's Parable". We DO know that God's creatures (man) won't experience "mortality" because "the wages of sin is death" BUT Jesus "paid the price of sin on the cross" and at DEATH a person's SPIRIT returns to God while the soul and body await the "resurrection (of the soul) at the return of Jesus.
Well I believe it is true that man "won't experience mortality" after the resurrection, as we have Heb. 9:27 to assure us of that.
Heb 9:27 And as it is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment,
But Ray has written a short article on the resurrected bodies of humanity will be physical (Physical or Spiritual Resurrection Bodies for the Wicked & Non-believers?
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7474.0.html ). All accept the Elect will be raised back up with physical bodies and put back on the earth to live and learn righteousness (Isa. 26:9). That judgment is their "second death" that all must experience and that is what the Elect are going through right now (1 Peter 4:17). Only the Elect will be given spiritual bodies to enter the kingdom in the first resurrection.
The "fire" that all of humanity will experience in judgement (in LOF) will be like the fire that the Elect are experiencing now in this flesh body, when we are chastened, it all comes from God. They will certainly not be literally burn as we are not literally burn.
When a person physically dies, yes the spirit leaves the body and goes back to God, then the body goes back into the earth, it disintergrates and there is no more soul, as spirit + body = soul. The person that dies without the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, will not be in the first resurrection. A corrupt sinner that dies will not inherit the kingdom and incorruption, so they will be raised back to flesh bodies.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
So God will raise everybody back up with a new body and place their very own spirit back inside them, but some will be raised to 'Life' and a spiritual body to be in the kingdom and the rest will be raised physical to judgment and condemnation.
John 5:28-29 Do not marvel at this; for the hour is coming in which all who are in the graves will hear His voice and come forth--those who have done good, to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation.
Anyway here is part of the article mentioned.
http://forums.bible-truths.com/index.php/topic,7474.0.html ----------
What KIND of new seed comes about from planting a seed that first must die? 1Co 15:37 “And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain”
Are we told what the “other” grain might be that sprouts like “wheat?” Yes, as a matter of fact, we are: Mat 13:25 But while men slept, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.
And are these “tares” also gathered into the barns (brought into the Kingdom of God)? NO, Mat 13:30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest [resurrection] I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles [different ‘groups’ at different ‘burnings’?] to burn them [in the Lake of Fire]: but gather the wheat into my barn [My KINGDOM].
NO, in the day of harvest, not all will come up “immortal and incorruptible.”
What else do we learn about the resurrection of God’s Elect? What are some of the features of their newly resurrected bodies?
“…but the glory of the celestial [high, above, heavenly] is one, and the glory of the terrestrial [worldly, EARTHLY] is another” (Verse 40).
Which category do the Elect come in? Now pay attention: 1Co 15:48-49 As is the earthy, such ARE they also that ARE earthy: and as is the heavenly, such ARE they also that are heavenly. And as we have borne the image of the earthy, WE SHALL also bear the image of the heavenly.
Notice that ONLY “we” [God’s Elect], not “they,” “…shall bear the image of the heavenly.” Paul is speaking that “THEY, the earthy,” and “WE, the heavenly,” and only the “we” will “bear the image of the heavenly,” not “they,” the wicked who will be raised as tares to be burned in the Lake of Fire.
Now we can understand verse 50 in proper context: Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption [corrupt men like Mao Tse Tung, Adolph Hitler, and Saddam Hussein] inherit incorruption.
The ONLY ones who inherit incorruption are those “WE [who] have borne the image of the earthly [and] shall bear the image of the heavenly.” And this happens at a specific time:
1Co 15:51 Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory” (I Cor. 15:51-54).
It is the “we” and the “us” that will be changed at the last trump, not the “they” and the “them.”
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mercy, peace and love
Kat