1 Corinthians 15:38

but God giveth it. body even as it pleased him, and to each seed. body of its own.

Points to Note:

1. Some of the very ones who were denying the resurrection, were farmers, who saw. resurrection very spring. Just because they planted. seed into the ground, didn't demand that the plant which sprang up had to look exactly like the seed planted. They didn't believe that decomposed seeds sprang up from buried seeds. Every year they witnessed that beautiful plants had sprung up from decomposed and buried seeds.

Therefore it is foolish to think that the resurrected body must be the old decomposed body "patched" up.

2. Even though there is no "vestige of its afterlife visible in the seed itself" (Fee p. 781); it still has one (i.e. the plant that springs from it). Likewise, the human body appears to be weak and mortal, and yet it does have. glorious future.

'even as it pleased him' -'That is why the interlocutor is called. fool in v. 36; such. question has left God out of account. God does as he pleases; and what pleases him is to "transform our lowly bodies so that they will be like Christ's glorious body." (1 Peter 3:21)' (Fee p. 782)

Point to Note:

Paul didn't believe in the theory of evolution or even "theistic evolution". The type of body for each and every plant was determined by God. 'Paul knows of no blind chance development of nature similar to ideas advanced in the godless theory of evolution. Rather, the very body which comes from the various seeds is fixed and determined by God.' (Willis p. 573) (Genesis 1:12)

'But even supposing the body comes up out of the grave in. healthy (and not. decomposed) condition, it's bound to die again. And are there to be numerous resurrections since every time the body comes back up its is destined to die again. But there is no body here except in the limitations of the critic's mind. There's more than one kind of body...God isn't lacking in the ability to create different kinds of bodies depending on differing sets of circumstances and different purposes.' (McGuiggan p. 200)