If someone said he had been cured, I would assume he had once been sick. If a couple told how their marriage had been restored, their relationship clearly must have been, at one time, on the rocks. And no one would say their car was fixed if it had never been broken.
If we speak of being resurrected with Christ, must we not have once been dead?
And if we have not yet died, how can we talk about being resurrected?
“Put to death, therefore, whatever belongs to your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires and greed, which is idolatry.” (Colossians 3:5)
“Now if we died with Christ, we believe that we will also live with him.” (Romans 6:8)
Notice the "if.” If we died with Christ.
Jesus did not die for the sake of resurrecting our physical bodies (although that will happen too). He does not promise resurrection from the dead for those who have never died and who continue to live as they did before.
No death, no resurrection. But if death, then resurrection.
It’s actually the good news.
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