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| Chapter II.—Objections to the resurrection of the flesh.
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Chapter II.—Objections to the
resurrection of the flesh.
They who maintain the wrong opinion say that
there is no resurrection of the flesh; giving as their reason that it is
impossible that what is corrupted and dissolved should be restored to the
same as it had been. And besides the impossibility, they say that the
salvation of the flesh is disadvantageous; and they abuse the flesh,
adducing its infirmities, and declare that it only is the cause of our
sins, so that if the flesh, say they, rise again, our infirmities also
rise with it. And such sophistical reasons as the following they
elaborate: If the flesh rise again, it must rise either entire and
possessed of all its parts, or imperfect. But its rising imperfect argues
a want of power on God’s part, if some parts could be saved, and
others not; but if all the parts are saved, then the body will manifestly
have all its members. But is it not absurd to say that these members will
exist after the resurrection from the dead, since the Saviour said,
“They neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but shall be as the
angels in heaven?”2614
And the angels, say they,
have neither flesh, nor do they eat, nor have sexual intercourse;
therefore there shall be no resurrection of the flesh. By
these and such like arguments, they attempt to distract men from
the faith. And there are some who maintain that even Jesus Himself
appeared only as spiritual, and not in flesh, but presented merely the
appearance of flesh: these persons seek to rob the flesh of the promise.
First, then, let us solve those things which seem to them to be
insoluble; then we will introduce in an orderly manner the demonstration
concerning the flesh, proving that it partakes of salvation.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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