This flows from a post of two days ago. We are returning to the thesis that Paul is writing: that without the resurrection Christianity is naught. So the resurrection of the dead is coming to us all. Eternal life is for all, but what kind of life — for without Christ you will damned. You will have eternal decay, destruction and death, with no relief.

1 Corinthians 15:30-41

³⁰And why are we putting ourselves in danger every hour? ³¹I die every day! That is as certain, brothers and sisters, as my boasting of you — a boast that I make in Christ Jesus our Lord. ³²If with merely human hopes I fought with wild animals at Ephesus, what would I have gained by it? If the dead are not raised,
“Let us eat and drink,
for tomorrow we die.”
³³Do not be deceived:
“Bad company ruins good morals.”
³⁴Come to a sober and right mind, and sin no more; for some people have no knowledge of God. I say this to your shame.

³⁵But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body do they come?” ³⁶Fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. ³⁷And as for what you sow, you do not sow the body that is to be, but a bare seed, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. ³⁸But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. ³⁹Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. ⁴⁰There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. ⁴¹There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory.

If the dead are not raised, Paul is saying we are more foolish than the hedonists. We should join the Pickup artists and account the worth of our life by the number of women (or, if you are female, join the sluts and the number of men) you have slept with.

But our instincts rebel against that. We all have a sense of morality (including hose men who love men: you have not seen contempt until you have seen what they think of the manwhores of the gay world).

And Paul destroys here the arguments based on sex, as if sex is class and amenable to a Marxist analysis, and as if a Marxist analysis is ever valid. (The foundations of feminism are not logical but post-logical, requiring Hegelian irrationality, hence the fact that they scream at us if we use logic).

For in the next life we will have the body that we want, not the one that hurts and groans every time one goes to the gym. We learn to be greater: the modern superhero mythos is based on our bodies being perfected. And Christ could go anywhere after he was resurrected.

The promise is we will be like him. Hold onto that in these days.