From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!npois!houxm!houxa!houxi!houxz!ihnp4!ihuxr!lew
Newsgroups: net.religion
Title: Re: flesh of beasts
Article-I.D.: ihuxr.336
Posted: Fri Feb 18 17:30:22 1983
Received: Sun Feb 20 03:37:54 1983
Reply-To: lew@ihuxr.UUCP (Lew Mammel, Jr.)

I think I do know what Paul means in the passage I quoted (I Corinthians
15:39) He is giving support to his assertion that the spirit can take
different forms. The question whether birds are of "a different flesh"
than fish is not his central concern. I think the context strengthens
rather than weakens my interpretation, which is that Paul is saying that
the various life forms are essentially different. I know that he is not
placing the burden of proof on this analogy, but is only offering what
he regards as a commonplace fact to give plausibility to his more
extraordinary claim (the resurrection of the dead.) I'm saying that
such support as this analogy might have afforded is removed by our knowledge
of the unity of all life on earth, and further that this knowledge is
profoundly incompatible with the Christian world view.

To this this extent I think the creationists are correct. I agree with
them that the modern scientific interpretation of the world is a dire
threat to Christian doctrine.

		Lew Mammel, Jr. ihuxr!lew