Hi Fe,
But why can they not be raised with a spiritual corruptible body? Why is that not possible?
I think I do understand your point and here what I see in the Scriptures.
Rom 8:5 For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.
v. 6 For to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually minded is life and peace.
v. 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, nor indeed can be.
v. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
v. 9 But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if indeed the Spirit of God dwells in you. Now if anyone does not have the Spirit of Christ, he is not His.
v. 10 And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.
v. 11
But if the Spirit of Him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, He who raised Christ from the dead
will also give life to your mortal bodies through His Spirit who dwells in you.
Only those who have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit will be given this "life." Now a little further down we see that this "life" is for the "heirs," to be "glorified" with Him.
Rom 8:16 The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God,
v. 17 and if children, then heirs--heirs of God and joint heirs with Christ, if indeed we suffer with Him, that we may also be glorified together.
This is the reward of the just, the rest of creation "
will be delivered," so it is yet to happen.
Rom 8:21 because the creation itself also
will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.(NKJV)
It tells us in 1 Cor. that as Adam was "the man of dust" and so are all humanity.
1Co 15:45 And so it is written, "The first man Adam became a living being." The last Adam became a
life-giving spirit.
v. 46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural, and afterward the spiritual.
v. 47 The first man was of the earth, made of dust; the second Man is the Lord from heaven.
v. 48 As was the man of dust, so also are those who are made of dust; and
as is the heavenly Man, so also are those who are heavenly.
v. 49 And as
we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man.
Now in verse 49 Paul says "we" he is talking to the Believers, "we shall also bear the image of the heavenly Man." Here it is in the Concordant.
1Co 15:49 And according as we wear the image of the soilish, we should be wearing the image also of the Celestial."
Now isn't this saying that those Believers/Elect will also be brought into "image of the heavenly man" at the resurrection? This image being heavenly - Celestial, which is spirit and unless you have the indwelling of the Holy Spirit you are still of Adam and "made of dust" and dust/flesh cannot inherit the kingdom.
1Co 15:22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ all shall be made alive.
v. 23 But each one in his own order: Christ the firstfruits, afterward those who are Christ's at His coming.
1Co 15:50 Now this I say, brethren, that
flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does corruption inherit incorruption.
1Co 6:9 Do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived.
But we do know who does inherit the Kingdom, His sheep, those that know His voice (John 10:4, 27).
Mat 25:34 Then the King will say to those on His right hand, "Come, you blessed of My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
mercy, peace and love
Kat