CRAIG
Steven, reinforcing Darrell's comments, "flesh and blood" was a stock rabbinic idiom for "mere mortal."

CARR
Paul was not writing to Jews. He would have known what flesh and blood meant to his readers.

And clearly Paul saw no reason to revise his opinion that flesh and blood bodies were mortal bodies.

No wonder he regarded people as idiots for wondering how flesh and blood bodies could be reformed. If flesh and blood was reformed, it would still be mortal!

Paul trashes the idea that corpses are formed from the dust that corpses dissolve into.

'The first man was of the dust of the earth, the second man from heaven. As was the earthly man, so are those who are of the earth; and as is the man from heaven, so also are those who are of heaven. And just as we have borne the likeness of the earthly man, so shall we bear the likeness of the man from heaven.I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God....'

Earthly things like corpses cannot inherit the kingdom of God.

The Christian converts apparently believed that corpses had to be revived for resurrection. No wonder these Christian converts scoffed at the whole idea of resurrection!

Is this formal creed a translation, or was a formal Greek creed produced by Aramaic speakers?