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Wait a minute here...if that's your 'proof' of Mormonism's conception of the afterlife being Biblical, then why do they have flesh? It says "flesh and blood", not just blood.
I've heard this even in non-Mormon circles, the argument usually goes the Gospel of Luke Jesus says He has "flesh and bones", and thus resurrected bodies have "flesh and bones" but not "flesh and blood". I don't particularly find this argument convincing, as I think it is missing the whole point of what the Apostle is saying by using the expression "flesh and blood" here.
Of course the Apostle is talking about the present mortal and corruptible condition and reality of the body; the body must be transformed in the resurrection, but as we are now in our present fallen, mortal condition we cannot share in the fullness of what is to come. That's why the Apostle adds, "neither does the corruptible inherit the incorruptible" and then proceeds to speak of the transformation that occurs at the resurrection; when "this mortal puts on immortality" and "this corruptible puts on incorruption". The body is changed, transformed, in the resurrection.
It really has nothing whatsoever to do with the material "components" of the body.
-CryptoLutheran
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