Paul insists that this is how it will be at the future resurrection. The body that goes into the ground is corruptible and temporary; it will be raised incorruptible and eternal. “It is sown in weakness but raised in power; it is sown a natural [Greek: psychic] body, it is raised a spiritual [Greek: pneumatic] body” (1 Corinthians 15:44). It will still be a body, but it will be made up of the most highly refined “stuff” there is: pneuma, or spirit. And so the resurrection is a glorious transformation in which the raised body will be a spiritual body, one that can never grow infirm or die.
