A natural body] (cp. 1 Corinthians 2:14, 'the natural man') endowed with natural life and fitted for an earthly existence. The spiritual body will be filled with spiritual life and adapted for a spiritual existence. The word 'natural' is literally 'soulish,' and suggests the possession of an ordinary human personality; while the word 'spiritual' suggests a relation to the divine. Man possesses the spiritual life through his union with Christ, and the Apostle asserts that there is a spiritual body fitted for the requirements of this spiritual life, and that he will come into possession of it in the resurrection life

45-49. Our bodies will be like Christ's, no longer like Adam's. Adam, made from the earth, became 'a living soul'; Christ, who is from heaven, is constituted a life-giving Spirit. We belong to both, and so share the nature of both; we have borne the image of the earthly man, we shall bear that of the heavenly Man.

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