1 Corinthians 15:20 But Christ has indeed been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep
This means that Jesus was the first to be resurrected ( without sin as a first fruits unto God, spotless and without blemish.)
Lazarus even so that he was resurrected first was null and void as a first fruits unto God, because Lazarus was not without spot or blemish, Lazarus was not without sin, and there for could not be used as a first fruits unto God.
Firstfruits is a term used in many applications. It means the first of and is not about blood sacrifice.
Please point out to me where in the Bible it says that anyone was resuscitation from the dead, I looked it up in the King James Bible and could not find the word resuscitation from the dead.
Why do you keep pushing the KJV.? I mainly use the NIV and NASB, but don't keep naming them. Just curious.
No, you don't find the word. But neither can you find Rapture and other theological terms we use all the time in Bible discussion. So that is a moot point.
It does not say Lazarus, or those raised up after Christ's resurrection or the others were resurrected, either, so that is a false demand to make.
Definition of (resuscitate) to bring someone who is unconscious, not breathing, or close to death back to a conscious or active state again.
Well, in the time of Christ people were hopelessly dead that today are brought back to life. CPR, shocking a heart back to working, surgery that was unknown back then etc.
God can do what God wishes. If he does not want your body to rot or you spirit to leave your body yet, that is the way it will be. Therefore you are basically sleeping, to use their terms, or in a coma, etc, to use modern day terms.
Are you aware there are drugs that can make you appear dead? Or a few that can slow their bodies to the point you cannot tell they are alive?
How about documented cases where corpses have 'woke up' in morgues, etc?
Or graves that have been opened and the insides of caskets where scraped by fingernails of people trying to get out?
You are trying to oversimplify this was too much.
Die once and then judgment means your spirit has moved on. You are not recovering from that. Just as Christ being the only resurrected says his spirit was gone and came back to his body, dead as it was. But it was then glorified, as will all when resurrected.
Not the case with Lazarus he smelled rotten and had been dead for four days and Jesus said he was dead.
It does not say he smelled in fact.
As for being translated to Heaven, that is a huge assumption with any basis in fact. Never happened in the Bible an zero mentions of any raised doing so, and there were a lot of them in the Bible.
It says die once only. It says only Christ has been resurrected to date.
You are creating contradictions with your claims.Either the Bible is true at all times or we cannot trust it in anything.