Made alive [zao] again

Made alive [zao] again from the dead.

"And this is the will of Him who sent Me, that everyone who sees the Son and believes on Him should have everlasting life. And I will raise [anistemi] him up at the last day." (John 6:40).

1. Everlasting life [zoe].

2. Being raised up again (bodily) from the dead in order to live | to be alive [zao] again.

Creator:	All things came into being through Him, and without Him not even one thing came into being that has come into being. In Him was life [zoe], and the life was the light of men. -- John 1: 3-4. There is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we IN HIM; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we BY him. -- 1 Corinthians 8:6. In Him (God) we live | are alive [zao], and move, and have our being; For we are also his offspring. -- Acts 17:28.
Creature:	Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: (when the creature is no longer living | alive [zao[)
Creator:	and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. -- Ecclesiastes 12:7.
Creator life given in the creation:	For as the Father has life [zoe] in Himself, so He has given to the Son to have life [zoe] within Himself. -- John 5:26  (He became flesh, taking on Himself the seed of Adam - the DNA of which had already been created by Him). And this is the record, that God has given to us everlasting life, [zoe aionios]  - and this life [zoe] is in His Son.  - He who has the Son has (everlasting) life [zoe); he who does not have the Son of God does not have (everlasting) life [zoe]. - 1 John 5:11-12

"Fool ! That which you sow is not quickened [zoopoieo], except it die." (1 Corinthians 15:36)

Paul was answering the question: "How are the dead raised [egeiro]? With what kind of body [soma] will they come?" (1 Corinthians 15:35), and he was talking about the resurrection of the body from death/the dead.

* It is written that the dead bodies of Adam and the seed of Adam who have been given eternal LIFE [zoe] IN CHRIST will be:

made alive [zao] again ("quickened"), having been quickened with the quickening of Christ's dead body (Romans 8:10-11)

- because we have been:

* buried with him [sunthapto] in baptism, wherein also all of us are 

* risen with him [sunegeiro] through the faith of the operation of God, who 

* has raised him [egeiro] from the dead, - and we, 

* being dead in our sins and the uncircumcision of our flesh, he has 

* quickened together with him [syzoopoieo], having forgiven us all trespasses." (Colossians 2:12-13)

"God, who is rich in mercy, for His great love with which He loved us, Even when we were dead in sins,

(1) He has (past tense) [syzōopoiéō] (quickened together with) Christ, (by grace ye are saved);

(2) and has (past tense) raised us up together [synegeírō] and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus" (Ephesians 2:4-6).

(Christ's dead body was quickened - not His Spirit: When Jesus died, His Spirit did not die: His soul went into hades - Acts 2:27 - where by the Spirit He preached to the spirits in prison- 1 Peter 3:18-20 - and His dead body, being quickened [zoopoieo] (made alive by the Spirit), was raised from the dead). 

So Paul says,

"If Christ's Spirit is in you,

your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit (of Christ) is your (eternal) life [zoe] because of (Christ's) righteousness. 

2. Moreover, if the Spirit of the one who raised [egeiro] Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised [egeiro] Christ from the dead will also quicken [zōopoiéō] your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you."  (Romans 8:10-11).

So because we have been quickened with Christ when His dead body was quickened, our dead bodies too will be quickened and we will rise again bodily from the dead - having been raised with the resurrection of Christ's dead body - hence we will LIVE | BE ALIVE [zao] forever (be immortal) (we shall NEVER die):

"For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be quickened [zoopoieo]."

(1 Corinthians 15:22 - where Paul is talking about the resurrection of the body).

So Paul says, 

"If then ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sits on the right hand of God. Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth. For ye are dead, and your life [zōḗ] is hid with Christ in God. 

When Christ, who is our life [zōḗ], shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:1-4).

(i) The word zoopoieo (quickening, being made alive) is being applied to the mortal body in all the above verses, and we are going to list the other verses using the same word soon, but first also bear the following in mind:

(ii) The words egeiro (raised), sunegeiro (raised with) and anastasis (THE resurrection of the body from the dead) - whenever the words are referring to resurrection from death - are always referring to the resurrection of the body in the New Testament. (Each and every New Testament verse using one of those three words in reference to resurrection from death, as well as the word anístēmi, is quoted HERE).  

suzōopoiéō: Used in reference to the dead body being quickened, i.e made alive again together with:  the quickening of Christ's dead body.

sunegeírō: Refers to being bodily raised up together with (through):  Christ's bodily resurrection.

The words are referring to the positional reality in Christ of those who belong to Him. 

Jesus said,

"It is the Spirit that quickens (makes what was dead, alive again [zoopoieo] ); the flesh profits nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life [zoe]." (John 6:63).

PASSING FROM DEATH TO LIFE

Passing from death to life is not being "raised" from death to life: Jesus said:

"Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that heareth my word, and believeth on him that sent me, hath everlasting life [aionios zoe], and shall not come into condemnation; but is passed [G3327 metabaino] from death unto life [zoe]." (John 5:24).

G3327 μεταβαίνω metabaivnw metabaino {met-ab-ah'-ee-no}: from 3326 and the base of 939; to change place:--depart, go, pass, remove.

The New Testament is not talking about the quickening (making alive) of the human body by the Spirit of God in one passage, and the quickening of the human spirit by the Spirit of God in another. The New Testament is always consistent. There is never any contradiction 

- the consistent message in the scriptures that have already been mentioned on this page, is that Christ's dead body has (past tense) been quickened and raised from the dead, and those who belong to Him have been (past tense) quickened and raised together with Him, because His Spirit is in them, 

and because the New Testament is always consistent and there is never any contradiction, it's the quickening of the body that is also being spoken about in all the following verses (the word zōopoiéō is used in each verse:-

1 Corinthians 15:   22 For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ shall all be quickened.   36 Thou fool, that which thou sowest is not quickened, except it die.  44 It is sown a body, natural [Greek: sōma psychikós], it is raised a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós]. There is a body, natural [sōma psychikós], and there is a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós].  45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit. * 1 Peter 3:18:  For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit. Romans 4:17: (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were. 1 Timothy 6:13:  I give thee charge in the sight of God, who quickeneth all things (Greek o pas: the whole, or the all), and before Christ Jesus, who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good confession. (Compare Romans 8:10-11).

John 5:21: For as the Father raiseth up the dead, and quickeneth them; even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. John 6:63: It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life. (Compare Romans 8:10-11). 2 Corinthians 3:6: Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit quickens. (Compare Romans 8:10-11). Galatians 3:21: Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have quickened, verily righteousness should have been by the law. (Compare Romans 8:10-11).

* The only passage in the New Testament that speaks of a "natural body" and a "spiritual body" is 1 Corinthians 15:44 where Paul, speaking about the resurrection of the body from death says,

"It is sown a body, natural [Greek: sōma psychikós], it is raised a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós]. There is a body, natural [sōma psychikós], and there is a body, spiritual [sōma pneumatikós]."

* The word psychikós is from the word psychḗ (soul / life / mind).

* The word pneumatikós is from the word pneûma (spirit / breath).

No Christian who has been taught about the quickening of the human spirit ("spiritual" "regeneration") in a church (and accepted that doctrine as true) will understand this unless the person acknowledges and understands the distinction that the New Testament makes between being given life [zoe]; and being alive | living [zao]. 

Peter wrote:

"Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By his great mercy he gave us new birth [anagennáō] into a living (záō) hope THROUGH the resurrection (anástasis) of Jesus Christ from the dead." (1 Peter 1:3).

The new birth is not talking about "spiritual" "regeneration" - it is talking about the life (Spirit) of Christ coming to live in you, giving you eternal life in Christ:

"When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:4);

and the hope that Peter is talking about is the confident assurance of the resurrection of our dead bodies (at the time of the return of Christ) - even after we have died.

Eternal life [zoe] is only given to created human beings through "Christ in you, the hope of glory" (Colossians 1:27). 

It follows that if someone does not have the Spirit of Christ in him, he does not have eternal life in him - which is what John taught in 1 John 5:12: 

11 "God has given to us eternal life [zōḗ], and this life [zōḗ] is in His Son: 

12 He that has the Son has (eternal) life; and he that has not the Son of God has not (eternal) life [zōḗ]." (1 John 5:11-12)

and without being born of the Spirit of God, created human beings simply have no eternal life [zoe] in them.

"If Christ's Spirit is in you,

(1)  your body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit (of Christ) is your (eternal) life [zoe] because of (Christ's) righteousness. 

(2) Moreover, if the Spirit of the one who raised [egeiro] Jesus from the dead dwells in you, the one who raised [egeiro] Christ from the dead will also quicken [zōopoiéō] your mortal bodies through his Spirit who lives in you." (Romans 8:10-11).

"For the law of the Spirit of the life [zoe] (which is) in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law of sin and death." (Romans 8:2)

"When Christ, who is our life [zōḗ], shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory." (Colossians 3:4).

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