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God's Creative Variety
Commentators explain that Paul points to the diversity of life on Earth—humans, animals, birds, and fish—as proof of God's creative power. Just as God designed different types of 'flesh' for different environments, He is more than capable of designing a new, different type of body for the resurrection. This analogy is meant to silence skeptics who question how a resurrection is possible.
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1 Corinthians
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Albert Barnes
On 1 Corinthians 15:39
18th Century
Theologian
All flesh is not the same flesh. This verse and the following are designed to answer the question from 1 Corinthians 15:35:
AT Robertson
On 1 Corinthians 15:39
The same flesh (η αυτη σαρξ). Paul takes up animal life to show the great variety there is as in the plant kingdom. Even if evolut…
Charles Ellicott
On 1 Corinthians 15:39
19th Century
Bishop
All flesh is not the same flesh.—Better, There is no flesh the same flesh. All organisms have the same basis; there is a “structu…
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Charles Spurgeon
On 1 Corinthians 15:39–42
19th Century
Preacher
All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds.<…
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On 1 Corinthians 15:39
Paul now answers the question some believers were asking: since a resurrection “body” (GK 5393) would be like the sinful mortal body we now have, h…
John Calvin
On 1 Corinthians 15:39
16th Century
Theologian
All flesh is not, etc. Here we have another comparison leading to the same conclusion, though there are some who explain it otherwise. For…
John Gill
On 1 Corinthians 15:39
17th Century
Pastor
All flesh is not the same flesh
Or "equal", as the Syriac version renders it; though all flesh is flesh, as to the n…
Matthew Henry
On 1 Corinthians 15:35–50
17th Century
Minister
- How are the dead raised up? That is, by what means? How can they be raised?
- Regarding the bodies that shall rise: will they be of th…