The First Fruits
While there appears to be some argument about what happens to us, there isn’t an argument about what happened to Jesus. So, Paul starts there. Jesus was raised, and was seen, and spoke and ate and interacted. This is what Resurrection is, says Paul, this embodied eternal life. It isn’t, he argues, some ghostly, spiritual Resurrection; it is flesh like we know it. But then, he admits, it isn’t exactly like we know it, or experience it now. But it is nonetheless real.