Resurrection is only biological

Resurrection is only biological?

 

What Death is Paul speaking of here?

 

Ephesians 5:14 wherefore he says, Awake you that sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give you light.

 

Arise from the dead? Living humans are told to rise from the dead?

 

Rising from the dead?

 

Why that's the very definition of resurrection, and in this case, it's not about dead biological bodies coming back to life.

 

Paul said “I die daily”, and we know this is figurative/symbolic.

 

Christ said “Let the dead bury the dead”, and we know a biologically dead body can’t bury another biologically dead body.

 

Resurrection is far from being “only” about the reanimation of the physically dead body, or at least, we should, as Christians.

 

Remember, Paul told living humans to “arise from the dead”, and we know this resurrecting isn’t about bringing a biologically dead corpse, back to life.

 

What of this Old Testament example of “resurrection”?

 

1^st Samuel 28:7-12 Saul tells a woman at Endor to raise up Samuel the Prophet, from the dead.

 

Where does this story mention Samuel’s physical body appearing? It mentions his presence, but nothing of a physical body.

 

Ephesians 5:14 is not an example of biological death; which should be obvious as Paul is addressing living humans, whom he tells to arise (resurrect) from the dead.

 

They were DEAD in sins, trespasses, etc...

 

These are the lost, whom Paul was speaking to.

 

He was preaching the Gospel that was raising the dead.

 

Remember Paul saying "I was alive without the law once, but once sin REVIVED, I died"?

 

It was the same with Adam when he broke God's law.

 

He was removed from the Garden, and God's presence.

 

We know this isn't biological death.

 

The dead, are those dead in their sins and are out of covenant with God. 

It was the same as the Northern Kingdom of Israel, who transgressed God's holy covenant and were scattered to the 4 winds when God gave them a writ of divorce, and it is the same with mankind to this day. Many are lost and are dead in their sins. 

So, we preach the Gospel, to raise the dead, out of their sins and trespasses, and are restored to covenant with God. 

Ephesians 5:14 is pertinent because Paul is not performing a séance in the middle of a graveyard of biologically dead bodies. 

Something every Christian should know, and understand: 

Christ also said “I am the resurrection” 

Most Christians have to complicate things that aren’t complicated.

 

© 2020 Jerry Wm Bowers Jr.