And with this point we turn to our second issue, the significance of the language. Without denying the reality of a future resurrection with Christ, Paul, following his typical “already/not yet” paradigm, asserts that those who belong to Christ have already experienced a “spiritual” resurrection with Christ. Because they are “in him” and Christ has himself been raised to sit at the right hand of the Father, so believers can be said to have been “raised with” him.8 The TNIV rendering of Paul’s imperative,
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