Paul's Greatest Idea and Why It Was Forgotten

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Paul is our only first-person witness to Jesus' resurrection, but as he lays out his understanding, in 1 Corinthians 15:35-54, of what that entailed, namely the transformation of the human being Jesus from flesh and blood to a "life-giving Spirit," it is in sharp contrast to the common idea of a body reviving and leaving an empty tomb. How can this be?
In this video Dr. Tabor lays it all out, and shows how Paul's understanding is part of his "greatest idea," the creation of a divine family of Spirit-beings called the "offspring of God," exalted above angels, and part of a transformed cosmos...thus Romans 8:18-25.
For a full exposition of how this view of Paul related to the gospel accounts of Jesus' empty tomb and resurrection of his physical "flesh and bone" body, see this article on Dr. Tabor's blog--and his subsequent discussion with the late Michael Reiser:
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18 авг 2023

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@kathleenwharton2139

Matthew is where the Sermon on the Mount is. Jesus tells us Everything we need to know and religionists almost completely ignore it. I was in a church for 50 years and never learned what I needed to know. Jesus took me Out and became my personal Teacher. He is the Best! I no longer bother with churches and all the philosophies of men. 😊❤

@oliviamaynard9372

Paul made the whole thing up

@mysticbeastproductions6811

I think Paul had a mystical union. During this encounter with the Almighty he gained insight into the fact that Jesus is an evolutionary catalyst. Christ was/is meant to help humanity make a paradigm shift in which conscience is king not psychopathic leaders. Thank you for tackling the voodoo magic sadly associated with some forms of Christianity. I have some short insightful videos on my channel that speak to the truth Paul and others intended to convey but did not have the conceptual language that we have in this modern era.

@howaboutataste

Perhaps not his "greatest" idea, but Paul's idea that the identity and significance of Jesus was concealed in the Hebrew holy scripture and revealed only when translated into Greek, and in this way slipped past the archons and angels who mediated them to the prophets, is quite a significant one!

@johnmcgrath6192

In Catholic school were taught that Jesus rose into his transfigured body, as on Tabor. The pope has recently reminded that the Body of Christ in the Eucharist is the Transfigured body. So Paul's description is not completely forgotten. In near death experiences the bodies of people are described as bdies of light/energy.

@JamesRichardWiley

Paul was too weird for my taste. I prefer scientific progress and critical thinking.

@failuretocommunicate

This is comedy for the intelligent and reality for the ignorant.

@onika700

Jesus told Mary not to touch him when she saw him because he had not returned to his Father yet. So maybe after his corpse was resurrected he had to return to God to finish the transformation. So he looked different when he visited Paul much later. Also, Jesus didn’t visit him in person but in a vision.

@rhb30001

I am not seeing any difference

@t3br00k35

You’ve ruined my week.

@socrates_yiannoudes

Thank you Dr Tabor for this mind opening explanation. I like how Tabor explains in a relevant text in his blog, that Paul's view of resurrection as Transformation into an immortal spiritual body is nothing like Platonism, but rather the opposite of Plato's idealist metaphysics. In Plato's view it is the soul, not the body, that is immortal and also pre-existent as such (not transformed by God as Paul's spiritual body), and it is also a dualist view (souls are superior to the body), meaning that one wants ideally to escape his/her material and decaying body, as well as the material and decaying world (therefore, for Plato, death is a friend because it allows this escape, not an enemy to be defeated as in Paul's view). These ideas, reflect Plato's and Paul's/Jesus' different understandings of history in relation to life and death . Plato's is cyclical and eternal, Paul's is linear culminating in the eschata, the final judgment day of Christ's return and the establishment of the kingdom of God.

@ymmitjones7904

not only are you a awesome Teacher... but.. lol you can make it easy for sommon folk like my self to make sence in what God has taught you. keep up your work and teaching us, that want to learn. love how you speak. God speaks threw you and Loves you friend. ttyl Mr. Tabor

@michaeljacobs3490

Thank you! Waiting for my copy of Paul and Jesus to arrive. Peace

@fcastellanos57

Good presentation by James, yes, our resurrection is a re-creation of our bodies into imperishable ones.

@yifuxero5408

Great! (I agree with this model which goes back to Plato, but differs from the Judaic idea of an actual reconstitution of dead corpses). There is a case similar to the Tabor model in Yogananda's book "Autobiography of a Yogi". It's the chapter "The Resurrection of Sri Yukteswar" available online. Sri Yukteswar was the Guru of Yogananda the but the latter's description of the event matches the Tabor interpretation of Paul's experience. So the Yogananda account should have read "Transformation" and not actual Resurrection of a dead corpose. Yogananda was quite clear.