Emphasis Preaching Journal

The believers in Corinth, Greece, were a part of a culture that held that there was no resurrection of the human body following death. The soul would be the only reality in the next world. To the Greek philosophers the body was like a prison that held the soul incarcerated until life in this present world is over. Paul attempts to convince the Christians at Corinth that both the body and the soul will be a part of the end-time resurrection event. He also explains, later, that our bodies will take on a new nature -- an eternal quality like unto the soul.