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Originally Posted by Presbyterian Deacon  The 2 Corinthians passage is perplexing to me.
I don't know what Paul is speaking of here, but the idea that it is some type of "temporay" body seems to be discounted by verse 1. Whatever this is that we are to "clothed with" the text tells us that it is "...a building from God, a house not made with hands, ETERNAL in the heavens..."
Can something eternal also be temporal? 
I think that Paul is refering to our new (or resurrected) spiritual bodies as we read of in 1 Corinthians 15:35-49.  |
Sterling,
I agree that he is looking for the eternal house ,not made with hands . I think these verses are speaking of the idea that Paul does not want to experience the process of death, but yearns for a perfected body.
I remember a pastor working through these verses saying that when we seperate from our physical body,our spirit wants to be [clothed upon] like baby bird who waits for all of its feathers to surround his body.
My speculation was not in regard to the eternal house [ resurrection body],
but rather the possibility of our spirit having a form that is visible outside of the natural realm.
In 1 cor 15/ he had commented on the order,first then earthly,than the spiritual.
There are verses that indicate the bodily resurrection as the last day.
I know Paul says to be absent from the body is to be present with the Lord.
He says absent from the body
When we are absent from it,and it is not yet the last day, what does a spirit or spiritual body consist of. In Lk.24 Jesus said this
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39see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'
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Because it does not have flesh,and bones can it not have a form that we could describe as having parts, fingers , tongue, speaking?