There is only one (real and true, non-corrupted) Gospel.
All other 'gospels' are worthless. Even if they are taught in theological / Bible colleges, universities, or from behind the pulpits in churches.
Mankind was created to live on God's created earth, in a created body. We were not created to "go to heaven when we die and live forever in heaven". That is not, and was never God's purpose for creating Adam and Eve.
God is a Spirit (John 4:24).
"God created [bara] humankind in his own image,
in the image of God he created them,
male and female he created them.
When YHVH God created man, He formed [yatsar] man of the dust of the ground,
and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life;
and man became [hayah] a living soul."
-- Genesis 1:27; 2:7.
"The Spirit breathes where He desires, and you hear His voice,
but you do not know from where He comes, and where He goes;
so is everyone who is born [γεννάω gennáō] of the Spirit."
"That which is born [gennáō] of the flesh is flesh,
and that which is born [gennáō] of the Spirit is spirit."
-- John 3:8, 6.
gennáō: to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate:--bear, beget, be born, bring forth, conceive, be delivered of, gender, make, spring. [Strongs Greek 01080]
hayah: to exist, i.e. be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary):--beacon, X altogether, be(-come), accomplished, committed, like), break, cause, come (to pass), do, faint, fall, + follow, happen, X have, last, pertain, quit (one-)self, require, X use. [Srong's Hebrew 1961]
The above is how it comes about that a human is born [gennáō] of the Spirit of God. "Born of the flesh" is referring to physical birth. We received life from our parents. We never had life before then. When we were born into the world, we were not "raised from death", and we were born as a body & soul human beings.
Adam was created by God. Then he was born of the Spirit of God, and became a living soul (a soul with eternal life).
Jesus prayed to God the Father concerning those who believe in Him:
"I in them, and You in Me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that You have sent Me and have loved them as You have loved Me." -- John 17:23.
To His disciples He said,
"Ye shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you." -- John 14:20
Paul, the apostle of Jesus, taught us the following:-
"If Christ's Spirit is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit (of Christ) is your life [zoe] because of (Christ's) righteousness.
Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also make your mortal bodies alive [zōopoiéō] through his Spirit who lives in you." (Romans 8:10-11).
zōopoiéō: God’s Spirit quickening, i.e making alive, giving or imparting (eternal) life.
Paul says exactly the same thing again in his letter to the Ephesians:
"God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us, even us being dead (the body being dead) in sins,
(1) He has syzōopoiéō (quickened together with) Christ, (by grace ye are saved);
(2) and has raised us up together (synegeírō)
and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:4-6).
The word synegeírō (raised with Christ) is referring to the resurrection of the body, not of the human spirit).
Paul also says the exact same thing in his letter to the Colossians (Colossians 2:12 and 3:1).
The quickening and raising from the dead is never being applied to the human spirit in the New Testament, but to the body:
In the Greek that the New Testament was written in, the word zōopoiéō always refers to the quickening of (by) the Spirit of God.
Egeírō and synegeírō always refers to the resurrection of the body from the dead (there isn't even one verse or passage in the entire New Testament where any of the Greek words that mean resurrection (anástasis, égersis, anístēmi, egeírō, and synegeírō) are NOT talking about the resurrection of the body from the dead).
The English is translated from the Greek, so not surprisingly, there isn't even one verse or passage in the New Testament where "resurrection", "the resurrection", "rising again" (from death) or "being raised" (from death) is talking about the human spirit -
- it's always (without exception) talking about the human body, and in each case the Greek uses one of the words associated with the resurrection of the body (anástasis, égersis, anístēmi, egeírō, and synegeírō).
We are in bodies that have not yet been resurrected from death. Our bodies will die. Those who believe that Jesus Christ is the Logos of God and the Son of God, by whom and through whom all things were created and by whom all things consist, who became a man and died for our sins and rose again from the dead, are spiritually IN Christ, who has been resurrected from the dead.
Paul is teaching us that our current position in Christ (for those who are still alive in the body) is that we are already bodily raised with Christ who is the last Adam, the Son of man, through His bodily resurrection from the dead.
This is why we are sure that we will be raised from the dead bodily, also. (This is also why Paul adds in Ephesians 2:6 that we are seated with Him in heavenly places ("made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus").
Being quickened (made alive) relates to the Spirit of Christ (the agent of the quickening) and it always applies to the resurrection of the body. Birth by the Spirit of God is associated with the human spirit, but quickening | being made alive is of (by) the Spirit of Christ in us, and is always associated with making our mortal bodies alive:
"If Christ's Spirit is in you, your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit (of Christ) is your life [zoe] because of (Christ's) righteousness. Moreover if the Spirit of the one who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised Christ from the dead will also quicken [zōopoiéō: make your mortal bodies alive] through his Spirit who lives in you." (Romans 8:10-11).
In 1 Corinthians 15 verses 22, 35-36 & 45 Paul talks about how being made alive by the Spirit (zōopoiéō) results in the resurrection of the body (soma).
This quickening of the body is also spoken about in:-
The word zōopoiéō is used in each verse.
1 Peter 1:3
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth (anagennáō) into a living (záō) hope THROUGH the resurrection (anástasis) of Jesus Christ from the dead".
Being quickened (made alive) by the Spirit of Christ does not equate with "the resurrection of the human spirit", a.k.a "spiritual resurrection" or "being raised spiritually" (or whatever words are chosen to express belief in the false theology of a "spiritual resurrection" that is taught in the church) -
- In the New Testament resurrection, rising again, being raised (from the dead) is always associated with the resurrection of the body (never of the human spirit). There isn't even one verse or passage in the New Testament where "resurrection", "the resurrection", "rising again" (from death) or "being raised" (from death) is talking about the human spirit -
- it's always (without exception) talking about the human body.
1 Peter 1:3
"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth (anagennáō) into a living (záō) hope THROUGH the resurrection (anástasis) of Jesus Christ from the dead".
The hope that Peter is talking about in the above verse is the assurance of the resurrection of our dead bodies (at the time of the return of Christ) after we have died.
"God saved us not by works of righteousness that we have done, but on the basis of his mercy, through the washing of the new birth [palingenesia] and the renewing of the Holy Spirit" (Titus 3:5 Netfree).
The word palingenesia relates to birth by the Spirit:
Strongs Greek 03824 παλιγγενεσία palingenesía, pal-ing-ghen-es-ee'-ah
(spiritual) rebirth (the state or the act), i.e. (figuratively) spiritual renovation; specially, Messianic restoration:--regeneration.
The quickening of individuals always occurs with the quickening of Christ (syzōopoiéō), who is the last Adam, after He died for sins:
1 Peter 3:18
"For Christ also has once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened [zōopoiéō] by the Spirit".
Jesus, having been quickened by the Spirit, was bodily raised from the dead. He was raised for our justification after He died for our sins, praise God:
Romans 4:25
"He was given over because of our transgressions and was raised [Greek: egeírō] for the sake of our justification."
THE SPIRIT AND THE BODY
Spirit is spirit. The human spirit does not have a body separate to the human body that God created Adam with. The only spiritual body that the New Testament speaks about is the resurrected human body that had died:
1 Corinthians 15:44:
-- It is sown a body, natural [Greek: sōma psychikós], it is raised a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós]. There is a body, natural [sōma psychikós], and there is a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós]. --
- The word psychikós is from the word psychḗ (soul / life / mind).
- The word pneumatikós is from the word pneûma (spirit / breath).
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False definition of the word zōopoiéō: God quickens (makes alive | imparts everlasting life) resulting in the resurrection of the human spirit.
Biblical definition: zōopoiéō: God quickens (makes alive | imparts everlasting life to) the dead body by the Spirit of Christ in the believer and the resurrection power of Jesus Christ, through and as a result of the spiritual BIRTH in the individual who was born of the Spirit of God.
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