based on 1 Cor and 2 Cor, this is what I think his views were:

• the spirits/souls of the dead get called back from the ‘realm of the dead’ and get ‘clothed’ with, or ‘resurrected’ into, new, ‘spiritual bodies’
• the bodies of those alive at the Second Coming get changed into ‘spiritual bodies’

which means that Paul does not care about the corpses of the dead and that he does not think that the corpses will be reassembled, reanimated, etc only to then be changed into those ‘spiritual bodies’.

the ‘earthly body’ and the ‘heavenly body’ are totally different in quality so why first recreate the former only to then change it to the later? seems like an unnecessary detour.

and it also seems to contradict Paul’s statements in 1 Cor 15 and especially in 2 Cor 5 where he talks about ‘the current, earthly house’ needing to be destroyed and replace by a ‘heavenly dwelling’, but also in Phil 1 where he talks about his desire to ‘leave the body’ in order to ‘be with Christ’.

comments?