A Denouement of Raising the Dead (Paul)

When the Lord raises all of the dead, the saved shall return in the same body, yet with new and improved capacity fit for eternal life. This is a difficult concept for some, especially college students saturated with zombie movies. I have no idea why college students still like those-they weren't new even in the 70s and 80s. Well, no matter. Resurrection of the saved would seem to be something like Captain Kirk's body reappearing from non-corporeality via the transporter. If the digital data of Kirk were saved even if the physical body perished it would be possible to convert the data into a new and improved Kirk with tweaks making it non-perishable.

Even so that transporter method isn't what I would expect God to use. With mastery of all of the content of the Higgs field, and of any possible field of any scale, entangling energy from spirit in bits of quanta that form any existing individual living or dead should be a simple matter for the Lord. For some reason people may expect God to be less technically sophisticated than people in silicon valley or Beijing, and that is unreasonable.

This is what Paul said (in part) I Corinthians 15:35-54...

"35 But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die:

37 And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

38 But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

39 All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.

40 There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

41 There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differeth from another star in glory.

42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

43 It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

46 Howbeit that was not first which is spiritual, but that which is natural; and afterward that which is spiritual.

47 The first man is of the earth, earthy; the second man is the Lord from heaven.

48 As is the earthy, such are they also that are earthy: and as is the heavenly, such are they also that are heavenly.

49 And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

50 Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.

51 Behold, I shew you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed,

52 In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at the last trump: for the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed.

53 For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

54 So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory."