1 Corinthians 15:35-49 What About the Body?

The Empty Tomb and the Risen Body of Christ

You're listening to the podcast of Recast Church in Mattawan, Michigan. This week, Pastor Don Filsick preaches from his sermon series titled, First Corinthians, Sinful Church, Powerful Gospel. Let's listen in.

All right, as she said, I'm Don Filsick. I'm the lead pastor here, and I am really glad to be together with you on this resurrection day. Happy Easter to all of you. I am glad to be together with what I know to be true of all of us, a gathering of broken sinners who are at various stages of our journey toward God.

I think that describes us fairly well. I take for granted that you're broken because God tells me that we all are. And so his word tells us that we are broken, but I also assume that you're somewhere on your journey toward God because he has you here this morning.

And so that in itself tells me something about what God is doing in your life to bring you together with God's people even here on this Easter morning. So my hope and prayer is that each and every one of us grows in our faith as a result of coming together and hearing from his word, that you hear from his word, you have an opportunity to sing praises to him, and all of that for his honor and glory.

Resurrection, the Body, and the Question “What About the Body?”

This morning we're continuing on in a series that I began all the way back in May of 2023. We're basically going to have spent a year in First Corinthians off and on here and there. And back then I had not planned out that we would be in a passage about resurrection on Easter Sunday.

And yet here we are this year. It just happens that I get to keep going to the next passage in the book that I've been preaching through. And the topic of the passage is resurrection. So God orchestrating some of these things to make it so that I can just kind of continue on in the series.

It's kind of cool. But I want to point out that there are two ways to look at the resurrection. And I have kind of gone with the first one and this passage a little bit on the second one. We can emphasize, as I have often and as many pastors do on Easter Sunday, emphasizing the empty tomb.

We can talk about the empty tomb and make that our focus, make that our attention. Those gospel writers do have a tendency to do that. So we can emphasize those ladies who showed up early that first Easter to anoint the body of Jesus, only to find the tomb was empty and the stone was rolled away.

We can marvel at that stone that was rolled away. We can marvel at the burial shroud that was laying folded off to the side on the stone tablet that morning, right? We can talk about the place of the resurrection.

But I want to just ask a different question. Paul seems to be interested in it from a different perspective, a different way of thinking about resurrection. And that is to ask this question, what about the body?

What about the body? Yes, there's an empty tomb, but what about the body? What about Jesus Christ himself? The empty tomb is impressive, but if you think that's amazing, just wait until you encounter the risen Lord and Savior Jesus Christ himself.

He was raised from death, and so much of our focus in resurrection centers on the place, you know, the actual location, the empty tomb itself. But I think we often lack thoughts or consideration to the body of Jesus Christ, his actual raised body.

Notice that in 1 Corinthians 15, which is an extensive teaching on resurrection, as a matter of fact, we're going to have spent, by next week, we'll have spent four weeks just on this one chapter because it's a long chapter.

There's a lot in it. The whole focus of all of 1 Corinthians 15 is on resurrection, and the empty tomb is mentioned how many times? Zero. Even that morning trip to the tomb isn't mentioned a single time in Paul's writings because Paul's focus lies on the post-resurrection appearances of Jesus Christ in the flesh to real people.

He is interested in those who saw Jesus in the flesh. What am I getting at? I'm getting at this. Seeing the empty tomb pales in comparison to meeting the risen Lord. Yeah, amen. Amen. Seeing the empty tomb pales in comparison to seeing the risen Lord.

Our text this morning answers a question that most all of us, if we've ever really even given any real genuine curiosity or thought to the resurrection, we will inadvertently ask this question. This question will be posed by those who have any notion of resurrection, and that is, what about the body?

But what about the body? The Corinthians are doubting the resurrection here in our text, and they're doubting it on the basis of a philosophical aversion to physical existence. This philosophical aversion is very well attested in ancient documents to understand Greek philosophy and the way that they thought about the body.

They wrote a lot about it, and they thought of themselves primarily in terms of a soul trapped in a body. This is like Plato and Aristotle and those guys were like talking about these things, and they were rationalizing through this.

And the body was seen as a prison for the soul, and I think probably if you had lived in ancient times without modern medicine, you would be prone to think this as well. Maybe even the fact that we live in a modern time with modern medicine makes us still think this.

But the notion of being raised to bodily life after death was repugnant to their thinking in part because they knew what it was to live in a frail, fallen, broken, pain-filled, able-to-suffer body.

Do you guys get what I'm talking about there? Raise your hand if you've experienced some pain, if you've experienced some suffering, you've experienced some difficult, you've experienced... Most of the older people, your hands went up pretty fast.

The young people, hands stay down, right? It's like you haven't quite got there yet. Back in the day, I used to dunk a basketball. I don't dunk basketballs anymore, guys. I just don't. And I don't imagine that I ever will until I get my new body, but that's a different thing.

So, but for now, yeah, not so much. And so, you know, life changes. The body changes over time. And the idea of coming back to this body where there is pain and suffering and decay and difficulty and degenerative joints and all of that stuff, where all of that is real, the idea of coming back to this, can you understand why they would think it was repugnant?

Why would you come back here? Why would you come back to this? Well, Paul's going to explain. We're not coming back to this. That's what this whole passage is about. And so, while their questions are nuanced with philosophy, our questions in the modern era are similar to theirs, but nuanced with science.

Theirs was nuanced with philosophy. We think primarily in scientific terms now. So they asked the question, how can resurrection happen? What kind of body will the have? And their tone probably landed with the force of checkmate.

Like, how in the world, this body, are you kidding me? Resurrected, brought back to life? Why? Like, God wouldn't do that to us because they think that they have Paul trapped. The Corinthians think they have him trapped in what they perceive to be an inconsistency from their cultural perspective.

Surely you're not implying that we would be brought back to this disgraceful, weak, and pitiful body of brokenness, death, illness, and pain. Right, Paul? They doubted the resurrection because of their experience of life in a real body.

While we ask the same question, what about the body? Because of our scientific knowledge of decay and death. We ask questions like, where do the molecules go? How will God resurrect a sailor that was lost at sea?

How will he bring back a man whose ashes are scattered across the desert? And our text is concerned with the body. And it's mentioned, the last passage had the word death in it about a dozen times. This passage has the body about a dozen times in it.

And despite Paul writing a lot about it here, writing about the body, telling us about the body in terms of resurrection, many Christians are woefully lacking it. And I would say many of us are woefully lacking in our thoughts about the resurrection body.

So let's let this passage teach us this morning the way we ought to think about what life will be like in the resurrection. So open your Bibles or your scripture journals or your devices to 1 Corinthians chapter 15.

We're going to start in verse 35 and read through verse 49. Again, 1 Corinthians 15, 35 through 49. And recast, this is God's holy and precious word, a word that he's been planning in advance for us to be talking about this morning.

This is what he desires to communicate to us here on this glorious morning given to us to reflect and remember and think about deeply resurrection. 1 Corinthians 15, verse 35. But someone will ask, how are the dead raised?

With what kind of body do they come? You foolish person, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body that is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of weed or some other grain.

But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. For not all flesh is the same, but there is one kind for humans, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish.

There are heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the soul of the heavenly is of one kind, and the glory of the earthly is of another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars, for star differs from star and glory.

So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable. What is raised is imperishable. It is sown in dishonor. It is raised in glory. It is sown in weakness. It is raised in power. It is sown a natural body.

It is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, then there is also a spiritual body. Thus it is written, the first Adam became a life-giving being. I mean, a living being. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit, but it is not the spiritual that is first, but the natural, and then the spiritual.

The first man was from the earth, a man of dust. The second man is from heaven. As was the man of dust, so also are those who are of the dust. And as is the man of heaven, so also are those who are of heaven.

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven. Let's pray as the band comes to lead us in worship this morning. Father, as I prepared for this and thought deeply about these things this week, it just strikes me here in the end that just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we who are yours in Christ shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

Oh, we are very familiar with what it means to be a man of the dust, a person of the dust, humans here wallowing around in the mud of this world, corruptible, perishable, weak, defiled, just easily carried away to our own devices, easily carried away to our own control of the world around us, control of others, even attempts at controlling you.

We know what it means to be of the stuff of this earth. We know what it means to live in the stuff of this earth. We know what it means to read the headlines and the headlines are a reflection of the wars that go on in our own hearts, both to be a sinner and to be sinned against, both to be an abuser and to be abused.

We have all tasted of both sides and how glorious and majestic that one has paid the price for us, a good Friday on the cross, dying for us and then blowing up death from the inside, from within a tomb, within the grave, bursting forth with glory and light, a beautiful new creation by you.

The hope that we have, that we who bear this image of the first Adam will also bear the image of the second Adam, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior who came to rescue us from sin and death. So Father, I pray that that gospel message would fuel our worship this morning, but would also fuel the way that we live day by day in hope, in gladness, in joy.

Yes, even in the midst of a dust-ridden, fallen, broken, busted world where our hearts are not what we want them to be, but knowing that you are putting it together should launch us out into joy in this gathering this morning and launch us out into a week of joy and gladness.

So Father, I pray that you would allow us to worship you with souls that are just in awe of what you have done for us and are doing for us and promise, even through this text, that you will one day do for us.

Receive these songs now as the corporate worship of your people we ask in Jesus' name. Amen. Thanks to the band for leading us in worship and thank you all for being here this morning. I encourage you to get comfortable and keep your Bibles open or your scripture journals, your devices, however you navigate to God's word.

Keep it open to 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 35 through 49. And as I say every week, I know some of you this maybe is your first time here, you can feel free to get up at any time. I know we just took a break, but if at any time during the message you want to get more coffee or juice or donut holes, if there's any left back there, take advantage of that.

And if you need the bathrooms, those are out the barn doors down the hallway on the left hand side. So yeah, make yourself at home here. And the goal of the remainder of our time is to keep our focus on 1 Corinthians chapter 15 verses 35 through 49.

The Foolish Question and Paul’s Response

If you were to ask a random Christian if they believe in resurrection, I kind of hope you'd get a yes, right? Like how many of you would just say like, yeah, I believe in resurrection. Like I mean, that's part and parcel of what it means to be a Christian.

So, but then if you ask them a follow-up question, then what's heaven going to be like? Or what is the life after this one going to be like? That's where you're going to start to get some diverging answers, right?

You're going to get some Gary Larson, far side cartoon type answers with floating on clouds and strumming harps and angel wings and maybe just an eternal church service, like as if this isn't enough. So, maybe an eternal church service.

You might get some comments about streets of gold maybe. But the concept of what it's going to be like is kind of ethereal to our minds. We don't spend much time thinking about it. The concept of what our bodies will be like in the resurrection is not something that many of us have put much time or energy into.

And yet here in our text, it might surprise you to know that there's this much written about it. There's this much written about it. There's a big chunk of 1 Corinthians chapter 15 that's written to dedicate to the focus of our attention on what it will be like in the resurrection.

Paul gives enough, by the way, in this text, by way of analogy and illustration to ignite our imaginations. And I believe he does so with intention. The types of things that he's going to say in this passage are to drive you to trust in your creator, who will also be, for those who are in Christ, our re-creator.

So, trust him is the goal of what Paul is getting at here. And trust him, not just with your life now, but trust him with your eternity. Trust him to be okay with the fact that he's going to be the one who puts you back together again in the end.

And he is seeking here to give hope to those who are saved by faith in Jesus Christ. So far in chapter 15, Paul has listed out evidences for the resurrection of Jesus Christ. Last week, we saw Paul both express the centrality of the belief in resurrection to the Christian faith.

And now today, he will focus his attention on one pretty vital and common question. It's a question that probably ought to be asked and probably has been by many of us, and that is, why would we want to be brought back into these failing and frail bodies?

Why would we want to come back into a body like this? And that's kind of the nature of what's being asked, although it doesn't look like it at first blush. When we look together at verse 35, it doesn't seem to be the exact question, the way I phrased it.

Why would we want to be brought back into these failing bodies? Well, look at what they ask. Someone will ask, says Paul, in verse 35, someone will ask, how are the dead raised and with what kind of body do they come?

So that's the nature of the question there. And in English, it looks more like a mere quest for a bit more information. As if Paul was giving a lecture and someone politely raised their hand and waited their turn and asked, but professor, how are the dead raised?

Can you describe the mechanism? What will the resurrected body be like? As if the nature of the questioner is just to gain more information, as if that's what they're shooting for. But by Paul's response here in verse 36 and by the Greek structure of those questions, it does not appear to be an innocently curious question, as if it's just, could you please inform us a little bit more about this?

It amounts to someone asking, like with an exclamation point question mark, how can this be? How can this be? What about the body? What about the brokenness? What about the suffering? What about the pain?

What about the illness? What about the disease? Checkmate, Paul, the body is in the way of resurrection. That's what he's thinking. That's what the questioner is asking. Checkmate, have you lived in a body?

Have you experienced pain and suffering in a body? Have you been in a body that had to go to the doctor? Have you waited in line at the ER ever? Have you ever suffered? Does your body work perfect? Raise your hand if your body works perfect.

No, you know it doesn't. I know the answer to that question. So what about the body is a logical question. And now, note how Paul responds to the question in verse 36. He's pretty harsh here. You foolish person, he says.

His response, by the way, is not just derogatory as if like an attack to the person, like you're a fool. You're an idiot. No, that's not what the word fool means in Scripture. His response is semi-technical in that a foolish person throughout Scripture is defined as a person who says that there is no God.

And the questioner is posing a question expressing doubt about God's ability to even manage resurrection. Underlying these questions is a very foolish presupposition. God cannot raise the dead because of the problem of the body.

God can't raise the dead because the body is just too big of a problem for Him to be able to resolve. As I mentioned in the introduction, the problem in Paul's day in Corinth was that many thought of the body as a prison for the soul.

And death was, they thought of death as a kind of a positive thing. Yeah, you go across that river Styx and all that stuff and Hades and all that. But death was the release of the soul from the realm of weakness and frailty and suffering.

So the idea of being revived to this place of suffering was not a good thought. To try to sell the concept to the Greek thinkers, to try to sell them the concept of resurrection was like, what? Come back to this?

Are you kidding me? The idea of resurrection was reprehensible, repugnant to the Greek thinkers like Plato and Aristotle and all of those guys. I think the big names and all of those guys in philosophy were saying, no, the body's a prison.

The goal is to get free from it. Why would you come back to that? Why would you come back to prison? Right? But for us today, so that's their hurdle. That's their understanding. That's what Paul is trying to address here from their perspective.

But for us today, we ask the question, same question, just a different way. We would ask the question, why resurrection? Rather, they would ask the question, why resurrection? Why come back? And we would be more prone to ask the question, how resurrection?

Their how, by the way, in verse 35 is not a how of method, but a how of in one likeness, making the two questions equal and basically restating the same thing in different ways. Like parallelism is very common, but how are the dead raised?

Like in what manner will they be when they're raised? With what kind of body do they come? Making those two parallel, you know, basically what they're getting at is describe the body of a raised person, Paul.

I mean, what's that going to be like? You know, and again, this is part of that checkmate, you know, try to describe that. Of course, I mean, a body comes with pain. A body comes with nerve endings. A body comes with all these things that cause pain.

And they would have been immediately skeptical of any embodiment at all after death. We're skeptical on a different front. You see, their question is, why would you even want to come back? But our question is, how is God going to collect all those molecules?

How's he going to collect all those molecules? Oh, checkmate, Paul. Some people are spread all over. Some people died and they were eaten by animals. Some people are everywhere. How are you going to do that?

Ha-ha, checkmate, right? And to both them and us, I believe Paul answers one unanimous way. Fool? Foolish person. That works quite well for our thoughts about like, oh, is God big enough to get those molecules?

Can he collect them? Does he have a net big enough? Is he wise enough and capable enough and powerful enough to put you back together again? Answer the question. Can he? He can, of course. So to both, he says, don't be godless.

Don't be foolish. That's what he means when he says foolish. Don't be godless in this. Don't be godless in your thoughts about what the life after this one is going to be. No, believe that God carries you all the way through.

The God who created this place is the God who is preparing that place. Amen? And so we are set up for his illustrations in the text. And this is where we kind of get to more of our outline. I'm not going to give it to you up front.

You're just going to have to care. You're going to have to pay attention. And just follow the outline as we go. The first is an illustration from botany verses 36 through 38. An illustration from botany.

Botany is the study of? Plants. There you go. Got it. There's going to be some science in here. And you weren't signing up for an Easter science lesson, but there's some science on botany. Paul uses an illustration really primarily from agriculture and plants.

It gives us a lot more information than we might routinely understand about the resurrection. He is absolutely trying to give you information about what the next life is going to be like. Revealed by God through the spirit.

And he posits that death is an essential step to the resurrection. And we go, duh. Like, but this is more than a mere duh. Like, of course you can't raise to new life if you haven't died. But by pointing out death here, he is expressing what ought to be considered as hopefulness, even in the face as he references our greatest enemy.

What is our greatest enemy? Death. Death is our greatest enemy. It's the last enemy. Well, sin and death. I mean, I don't know you can say which one's worse, but I know which one's going to be last destroyed is death.

And let me just state this emphatically. Death sucks. It sucks. It has haunted me all the days of my life. From my earliest memories, my father was diagnosed with cancer when I was five years old. Those are my early memories.

My dad's sick. Three days after my eighth birthday, he passed away. My mother died six months before Lynn and I were married. I was 22 years old. I missed being an orphan just by a few years. And so what that did in my heart was made me think a little bit about where are we going?

I was thinking that as a little boy. Where are we going? What is this all about? Where's dad? Some of you have had similar experience and you've lost somebody that you love. I mean, I've been chasing down that.

I've been chasing that down and also been chased by that my entire life. Do you know what I'm talking about? There's a little bit of a number on a kid's head when they lose their dad at a very early age and watching him, watching death take him.

Not fun. So I would just discourage you from speaking of death in coddling terms. Don't speak of death in coddling terms as if it's just a grace that's given to us at the end. Our bodies fail us and we go.

That's not the way it's meant to be. Did you know that? Death is not natural. Death is not a part of the created order. It's a part of the fallen order. Amen? And here's the thing is when we speak of it in coddling terms as if, oh, it's just God bringing his children home.

No, it is a severe and dark enemy that caused the Son of God to come and rescue us. And when you demote and push down the problem, you also push down the hero who conquered it. Was it a lizard or was it a dragon?

He conquered a dragon. He conquered the worst of enemies. Death, which haunts not just me because of my experiences, but haunts every single one of us. It is always in the background saying, limited time.

Is it today? Is it not in the back of your mind? Does it not haunt you as like a dark cloud in the recesses of your thoughts? Well, maybe not some of you that are younger, but that doesn't mean it's not there.

It doesn't mean that it's not stalking you. Oh, wow. That got dark. No, we don't have a lightweight enemy that he defeated, but we have an amazing and glorious hero who conquered death from the inside.

And just like he says, just like a kernel or seed of a plant or its fruit ceases to grow once plucked from the ear, the apple stops growing when you pluck it from the tree. The tomato stops growing. Yeah, it'll turn colors, but it stops growing when you remove it from the plant.

And in that sense, those seeds die. So too will we all one day be plucked from this earth in death. And talking this way, of course, sounds more like a Good Friday message than a Victorious Easter message, but just hang on.

Because when that seed is disconnected from its source of life, the plant, it is dead and it no longer moves to follow the sun like the plant would. It no longer grows. It no longer expands. And to be quite honest, as we keep it in a jar or keep it in a packet on a sill waiting for spring to plant it, it's dead.

It's lifeless. It's just sitting there no longer expands. In this sense, it models death. But when it is sown into the ground, the dead seed comes to life. There in that context, it comes to life. And what you sow is nothing at all whatsoever like what comes up.

Could you ever imagine if the only thing you ever experienced was an acorn? Could you imagine an oak tree? By looking at the seed, would you have any notion of what's going to grow out of that? You can look out the window.

You can see the tops of some oak trees out there. Acorn. That's what started that thing. Our minds ought to be blown by the world around us. Like if you just have just a kernel, a seed, if you just have a smidgen of curiosity about the world, it should just blow your mind about the way that God has designed things.

Acorn, acorn, oak tree. Boom. Like what magic does that? Right? Oh, you can get in all the science of it and all of that stuff. It is amazing. You see, the seed planted is not predictive of the plant that will grow.

And He is saying that's the same in the resurrection. But according to verse 38, God is the one who has designated each form to each plant. His sovereign design, His sovereign hand guiding in creation.

In Genesis, we are told that God created each thing according to their kinds. Consider for just a moment that God is the reason you've never planted a kernel of corn and had a strawberry plant grow. He has organized a process.

Chaos is not in charge of this world. Amen? Chaos is not in charge, but rather the organized patterns that are instituted by our Creator is the way the world works. But verse 38 brings us back to consider the sovereignty of God on the subject of resurrection.

God is in charge, and He who brings oaks from acorns is the God who will bring resurrected bodies from corpses. And He will choose just the right amount of function and glory to bring to those. And those both come into the next section of our text.

God’s Varied Creation and the Promise of an Eternal Body

So, the second movement of the text is in verses 39 through 41, we see two more illustrations. We see an illustration from biology and an illustration from astronomy. Like I said, you didn't know you were going to be in for a science lesson here, but Paul goes into these couple of scientific things.

So, botany, biology, astronomy. And in verse 39, he's highlighting from biology that God has designed all kinds of animal forms. Humans, land animals, birds, and fish. And by the way, just as if he's like showing off that he knows Genesis, he's actually giving them in reverse order from highest to lowest.

Humans, land animals, birds, and fish. He's going through the days backwards. But his purpose in these designations and distinctions is to remind us all that God is a master creator who has demonstrated a knack, an amazing knack for various designs.

Again, just opening your eyes to look at the world around you. You should be in awe of our creator. Birds, for flight, have a body specific to their needs, like hollow bones and wings and the ability to fly and the light feathers to keep them warm and all of that stuff.

Fish have gills and fins designed well for water, and when the two come together, snatch, right? They're designed. The design is amazing. And in verse 40, he switches to another discipline of astronomy.

As little, not astrology, astronomy. As little as Paul would have understood of the stars, he is certainly more right than he knew. That the stars vary in glory, and he says that, and I'm not sure what he really understood of the stars in his understanding, his knowledge, his learning, but what we've uncovered about the vast array of the universe is that the stars are vastly different in size and color and life stages.

There is a vast, vast variety of types of stars. I took an astronomy class in college, and it was one of my favorite classes, and got a chance to use one of the higher-end telescopes up at Calvin College, and I owned a high-end telescope for a while, saved up my money, bought one back when my kids were little, and for several years, when my kids were young, we would go out into parking lots at night or out to the park and see, and there's one problem.

You can buy a high-end telescope in Michigan, but what's the problem? Clouds. Cloud cover. And then there's one other problem, and that's that it's late in the summer to get to the darkness, so you've got to be out there at 11 o 'clock to really get the peak darkness, and it's like my kids were asleep and stuff, but we did get to see the rings of Saturn.

We got to see Jupiter, its moons, really cool stuff, and I enjoyed it. I sold it. Maybe someday in Arizona, we'll get a chance to look at that or something. I don't know, but Paul, in his limited scientific understanding, speaks in verse 41 of the glory of the sun, the glory of the moon, the glory of the stars, and the glory of the earthly bodies of animals differs from the glory of the stars in their brilliance.

What he's saying is that there's awe and wonder when you look and behold an elephant. There's awe and wonder when you look and behold the whales or the dolphins or even the sharks or just all different kinds of animals, and you see the birds flying and singing in their own songs, and you see all of this creation, and there's glory in it, but how many of you have seen the glory of sitting in a campsite, looking up in the darkness at the sky, clear, non-cloudy?

Once in a while, you get one of those, right? And it's just awe and breathtaking. Now, we might not understand why he is comparing animals to stars here, but he is here encapsulating the vast array of things designed by our creator, God.

How many of you know that there's all different kinds of designs, all different kinds of things that he has created from the animals to the stars, and each one has its own kind of glory and function, and what is Paul saying about resurrection here in these illustrations of biology and astronomy?

God who provides appropriate bodies for fish and birds and land animals and humans and appropriate glories for stars and moon and sun can certainly be trusted to provide us an eternal body with appropriate glory and function.

Think about it. If you believe in a God who made all these things, if you believe in a God who designed this created order that you inhabit now, are you really worried about his ability to put you back together again at resurrection?

When you behold all that he created, are you going to go, yeah, but this is a bit tough because I got molecules here. There's atoms that make up my body. So, I don't know about that. Do you see how silly that is?

Do you see why Paul responds, foolish person? How foolish to look at the creation around you, to see God's varied creation, and then go like, but I don't know if he can fix this. No, he can put it back together just fine, amen.

And think about this from another angle. He's going to design it different, like different as in like an acorn to an oak tree different. Like those two things are vastly different. So, he who designed, I just think this is like, I think he's intentionally like drawing us in, kind of roping us in by some of these illustrations.