Was the resurrection physical? Paul seems to say no. When he talks about a “resurrected body,” he says it is a body appropriate to the world that it now inhabits. He says what is sown is perishable, but what is raised is imperishable (I Cor. 15:42). Does “imperishable” not suggest something that is no longer subject to death and decay? He says it is sown a physical body; it is raised a spiritual body (I Cor. 15:44). Do these words not counter the view of resurrection as physical resuscitation?
