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Thomas2007 · #29 (**permalink**) 03-27-2008, 01:55 PM

Matthew says:

"But as touching the resurrection of the dead, have ye not read that which was spoken unto you by God, saying, I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living." (Matthew 22:31-32) and in another place, "Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad" John 8:56

Wright said in the article:

"[The Apostle] Paul is very clear that Jesus Christ has been raised from the dead already, but that nobody else has yet."

Further, the quote in John 3:13 in the article is from the critical text, not from the Protestant Bible which reads:

"And no man hath ascended up to heaven, but he that came down from heaven, even the Son of man which is in heaven."

The emphasis on the different readings in the text plays a big part in the interpretation of these things.

Scripture is clear that many have been resurrected with Christ (Matthew 27:52-53), they seem to account to about 144,000 souls (Revelation 14:1-5, 7:4-8). My hypothesis is that these may very well be the children slain by Herod, or maybe even including those slain by Pharoah as well. (Matthew 19:14, Mark 10:14, Luke 18:16). This event seemed to cause Hymeneaus to misunderstand the teachings of Paul on the resurrection.

But to say that nobody else has been resurrected isn't correct. The place the critical text and his position on interpreting Paul must all be taken into account with Wright, because the soul sleep of the Old Testament dispensation certainly isn't carried over into the new creation under Christ.

Beware of this fellow - he works corruption and if he can get you to agree with one of his interpretations someplace, he probably has an agenda and will use that to lead you into other intepretations he has. Everything is line upon line and precept upon precept, when you start making changes they may seem small on the surface, but when they finish their work up through the building of doctrine they come out the other side as something big.