(urth) A new mystery ...

[Matthew King]

On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:51 PM, Jeff Wilson <jwilson at io.com> wrote:
>>> And also Talitha (in the Book of Acts); and also the boy Elijah
>>> raises. Christ is unique in that nobody resurrects him, he does
>>> it himself.
>>
>> Not to mention the imperishable body.
>
> Is the imperishable attribute scriptural?

http://www.gnpcb.org/esv/search/?q=1+Corinthians+15:42-49

The natural/spiritual dichotomy is misleading, and a result of
troubled translation--though there aren't any major translations that
get it right.  Some even call it physical/spiritual.
http://bible.cc/1_corinthians/15-44.htm

The words involved are psuchikon and pneumatikon, deriving from psuche
and pneuma.  Pneuma is "spirit", but psuche is usually translated as
"soul" or sometimes as "being".  The idea of "life-force" isn't far
off.  There's a perfectly good Greek word meaning "natural":  phusike,
which has descended to us in "physical".