What is the meaning of the text that says, "Flesh and blood can not inherit the kingdom of God"? Yet we know that Christ had an immortal body, and that He had flesh and blood, and entered into the kingdom of heaven; also, Elijah arose to heaven bodily. A. A. The last part of the above verse explains the first part: "Neither doth corruption inherit incorruption." The blood of all mortals is more or less corrupt. The life-current in humanity has been poisoned with the virus of sin. However ineffectual their efforts, the theory of the promoters of panaceas is correct, "the blood is impure," "the blood needs purifying." The corruption is there. When the mortal body becomes immortal, the life-current will be no longer blood, but spirit. Nowhere do we read that Christ's body after the resurrection possessed blood. Elijah was changed; blood-life gave way to spirit-life. The bodies are real; the life is no less so.