![]() ![]() One day, though, our bodies will be raised in power and glory, and we will no longer be subject to the flaws and fragility that pervade life today. We are also weakened by sin and temptation. Our earthly “temples” are undeniably fragile and susceptible to the plethora of diseases that ravage mankind. Our current bodies are also characterized by weakness and debility. Freed from the restrictions imposed by sin, our resurrected bodies will be honorable and perfectly suited for pleasing and praising our Creator throughout eternity. ![]() Yet believers have the promise that our imperfect and dishonored bodies will one day be raised in glory. And “when the perishable has been clothed with the imperishable… then the saying that is written will come true: ‘Death has been swallowed up in victory’” (1 Corinthians 15:54).Īs a result of the Fall, we are “sown in dishonor.” We were originally made perfect and in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), but sin has brought dishonor. Our resurrection bodies, on the other hand, will be “raised imperishable.” They will never experience sickness, decay, deterioration, or death. From dust we came, and to dust shall we return (Genesis 3:19 Ecclesiastes 3:20). Aging, deterioration, and eventual death now affect all of us. Due to disobedience, mankind became mortal. However, they became perishable as a consequence of the Fall. Through the first Adam, we received our natural bodies, perfectly suited to an earthly environment. In short, our resurrected bodies are spiritual, imperishable, and raised in glory and power. Contrasting our earthly bodies with the splendor of our heavenly (resurrected) bodies, Paul says, “The body that is sown is perishable, it is raised imperishable it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body” (vv.
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