Ok, that’s my bad IF that’s the impression I’ve given. I have all the hope in the world of “heaven for all” beyond this life; in the past THE main reason for being harangued as a dirty “universalist” by none too few vocal prêterists… but you can’t help bad luck.
From the pantelist perspective it’s more a case of acknowledging that the scriptures are more silent on what that all looks like, and so accordingly can challenge some of the more notional evangelical assumptions around this. My position is ‘post evangelical’, not bound or wedded to more “traditional” assumptions, but has a strong appreciation of the context of the historical narrative. Thus “audience relevance” is key. This doesn’t negate anyone post “end of the age” deriving personal significance, meaning and blessing from the Divine principles of Scripture, it just helps “not to go beyond what is written” (1Cor 4:6) – hopefully.
Hmm… it is amazing how these “glimpses” can sometimes become all manner of speculative doctrine more detailed than the crack of light breaking through the scriptural doorway suggests.
It is for example interesting how mention is so often made (not in scripture) with reference to Jesus’ “glorified body” and this in relation to his seemingly miraculous appearances post resurrection… and yet the body (pardon the pun) of scriptural evidence indicates that this activity was normal fare for Jesus BEFORE his crucifixion and resurrection… Mt 14:25; Mk 6:48-49; Jn 6:19.
As to Paul… his language is interesting when speaking of what is being raised (present tense) in 1Cor 15. They lived in the true intertestamental period CE. 30-70 where one testament (OC) was drawing to a close (Heb 8:13) while the other testament (NC) was burgeoning (2Cor 3:7-11)… they were overlapping ages i.e., Paul’s “not only in this age but also in that which is about to <μέλλοντι> come.” Examples of mellonti Act 20:3; 27:2 = ‘about to’ i.e., that which is “at hand”, on the verge or near to happening.
According to the Greek text what Paul describes as occurring in terms of resurrection is ALL in the PRESENT TENSE… actions as occurring THEN in that age of covenant renewal. The parsing of 1Cor 15 reads like this…
35 But someone will say, “How are the dead being raised up? And with what body are they coming?”
42-44 So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is being sown in corruption, it is being raised in incorruption. It is being sown in dishonor, it is being raised in glory. It is being sown in weakness, it is being raised in power. It is bring sown a natural body, it is being raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.
The “natural body” aka “this body of the death” (Rom 7:25) i.e., “the Law” or body of Moses was “weak and beggarly” (Gal 3:9) but the “spiritual body” aka “Body of Christ” was LIFE.
“The dead” in this passage, which some gentiles in the Corinthian church were denying resurrection (vs. 12), was “Israel” – “dead in trespasses and sins”, yet being raised through the gospel from the old covenant (natural body) to the new covenant (spiritual body); by this means was “all Israel” being saved, i.e., redeemed (Rom 11:26-27).
According to Paul ONLY God possesses “immortality” (1Tm 6:16), and in keeping with his “putting on / putting off” motif of the epistles to “put on immortality” (vs. 53-54) meant putting on the very life of God (2Pt 1:3-4)… it was for them in that ‘end of the age’ a then PRESENT reality, a process they had embarked upon.
This is not the conventional reading/understanding of the Corinthian passage BUT IT DOES reflect the nuances of the Greek text.