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This comprehensive study of Paul’s language of “the body” knits together all of his great themes: the body of sin and death, in which man has fallen; the body of Christ on the cross, through which we are saved; Christ’s body, the Church; and the resurrection of the body. Nearly all of the main tenets of the Christian faith are represented here—the doctrines of man, sin, the incarnation and...

the fatal objection to taking v. 1 as speaking of the individual resurrection body is the present ἔχομεν, ‘we have a building from God’. Now, in 1 Cor. 15, and indeed everywhere else in Paul, including the rest of this passage, the final transformation of our existing body and the receiving of the new one is an event that must wait upon the Parousia. Until that time even those who possess the firstfruits of the Spirit have to endure in groaning expectation (Rom. 8:23). To suggest that we have a
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