It then can be added that the body corrupts at death and eventually ceases to exist but the soul is essentially immortal.It is surprising (to me at least) that so many twentieth century Christian thinkers are tem! ... Thus Irenaeus says: "Our survival forever comes from His gre atness, not from our nature." 2It would be interesting to discuss this option further, and especially to ask why so many recent and contemporary Christian theologians are drawn toward it, how they might distinguish " spiritual resurrection " from immortality of the soul, and how they might defend the theory against cri...

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