Re: Question for Clergy

Few comments below
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From: <drsyme@cablespeed.com>
To: <asa@calvin.edu>
Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 8:33 PM
Subject: Question for Clergy

> If the correct interpretation of the resurrection of believers is that the
> self same body will be raised out of the grave, in the same way that
> Christs body was raised, how do you counsel people regarding things such
> as cremation, donating organs, terminal illness, and amputation?
> MR It is transformed not resuscitated

> I am asking this question in all seriousness. If the same body is going to
> be raised how can this occur if the body was cremated and scattered in the
> ocean? Surely that "body" would be incorporated into other things, even
> other people over time. If someone has a progressive illness, would they
> be better off dying quickly to avoid further deterioration; or if someone
> needs an amputation to save their life, would they be better off dying
> from gangrene but still have all their limbs for eternity? If you are a
> cadaveric organ donor and they harvest your heart, lungs, liver, etc after
> you die, what happens after you are raised? There are many other
> implications to this idea, and frankly it is foreign to me.
>
> I must have missed the class that taught that our self same bodies will be
> raised after death. I never had the understanding that the self same body
> will be raised after death, so when I came to understand the preterist
> view, I quickly went from accepting partial preterism, (after I read RC
> Sproals "The Last Days According to Jesus.") to full preterism, because
> the biggest objection the partial preterist have with preterists is the
> nature of the resurrection body. But I already was believing along the
> same lines as the preterists, long before I knew what preterism was.

MR it is clear when we see that resurrection is transformation not
resuscitation>
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Received on Thu Apr 20 16:44:26 2006