I would thank you many times if you would give me more light on 1 Cor. 15: 44-55. Especially I do not understand about flesh and blood not inheriting the kingdom of God. What, too, is the difference between corruptible and mortal, in verse 53? R. S. H. Our explanation will necessarily have to be brief. Verse 44 declares that "it is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body"—that is, having reference, of course, to mortal man. "Natural body" is really "soulical body." Verse 45 explains this,—"The first man Adam became a living soul"—he had a soulical body, and after he had sinned he lost that life connection with his Lord, and had simply the life of the body common to all animal creation. But such a one as that in the Lord Jesus Christ receives by faith the spirit-life, and when he dies he lays down the natural body, but receives in the resurrection the spiritual body. Of course we can not comprehend the nature or character of that spiritual body, but it is just as truly a body as the natural body, and will be the body of the resurrection, even as was Christ's body after it was raised from the dead. "The first man Adam became a living soul. The last Adam became a life-giving spirit," but possessing the spiritual body, and bearing the marks that were in the natural body transmuted by the power of God into a spiritual body. Verse 46 shows that the natural comes first; then after, that which is spiritual. All who are of the seed of Adam are after the first man, earthly; the second man is the Lord from heaven. All mortal men have followed in the way of Adam and died; but all who have truly accepted of the Lord Jesus Christ, will bear His image when He shall come and the resurrection shall take place. The same thought is expressed in character in Rom. 6:5. But the apostle would have us understand that we do not inherit the kingdom of God in these corruptible bodies. That evidently is all that is meant by "flesh and blood,"—men in the present state of things, the natural man. This is emphasized by the last clause, "Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." God's kingdom is a spiritual kingdom, and all who inhabit that will be spiritual beings, real beings, literal beings with spiritual bodies, none the less real than here, but different in nature, not composed of flesh and blood as is corruptible man. May it not be true, as now man's life is in the blood—that is, the natural life (Lev. 17:11)—that then, in the kingdom of God, when man receives his resurrection body, the life will not be the blood life, but spirit life, nevermore to be lost, corrupted, or depraved? Verse 51 declares that not all God's children shall sleep; we shall not all sleep, but all will be changed, as well those who sleep as those who wake and are ready at Christ's coming. All this change will occur by the creative power of God in one moment. The dead shall be raised incorruptible. That is, the coming forth from the very earth will itself be a change—they are raised in that way, and the righteous living shall be changed. The dead the apostle designates the "corruptible," the living he designates as "mortal." The dead, the "corruptible," will put on "incorruption;" the "mortal," the living saints, will put on "immortality." "And when this corruptible [the dead] shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal [the living] shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory." This, in brief, outlines the glorious change which will take place in the nature of all those whose characters have been formed in Christ Jesus.