Luke 3:6 says that all Flesh shall see the Salvation of God.
I know many of you are thinking I just explicitly disagreed with 1 Corinthians 15:50.
"Now this I say, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; neither doth corruption inherit incorruption."
But that's a verse that is commonly misunderstood because of people proof texting it out of context. Starting with how they even drop the last part of that verse about Corruption and Incorruption.
The next verse talks about how we will be Changed at the General Resurrection, and the verse after that saying we'll be raised Incorruptible and Changed.
Verse 53-54 say.
"For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. 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."
So placing verse 50 in the context of all that, what is clearly meant is that bodies of MERE Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom. The difference between our future Resurrected Bodies and how our Bodies are now is entirely a matter of what will be added we currently lack not anything being taken away
This is also why II Corinthians 5:2-3 refers to us as currently Naked because we lack our true Spiritual clothing. We are not Spirits trapped in Bodies but Bodies that lack Spirit.
That Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the kingdom is the problem the Incarnation is meant to solve.
People will also use selective quotations of verses 35-38 and 42-46 to say "the Body raised isn't the same Body that was buried", ignoring how Paul is saying all of this in the context of an allegory of planting a Seed or Grain in the Earth and then a much larger Plant growing out of it. It is being called a different body because of how it's nature has changed, not because there is no material biological continuity. The fact is if it's a completely new body being created from scratch there is no reason to use the word "raised".
Also Paul's use of "Celestial" in this Chapter means "Heavenly" as in the Sky and Outer Space, no one in Paul's times used the word "Heaven" to mean some non Material world of Forms, Pre-Christian Platonists called that a place beyond Heaven. Same with Spirit, it did not mean "non Material" too any first Century Greek speakers.
Again a good visual metaphor for what I think our change at the Resurrection will be like is a Transformation sequence from a Magical Girl Anime.
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