Paul refers to Christ as resurrected according to the scriptures, the scriptures which attest that Israel is to be resurrected (and not a man). Therefore he believes not in a resurrection of a man but in the renewal of Israel. This is not at all the way you seem to think about Christ. You seem to think Christ is one man. Therefore this statement you have quoted does not suggest what you are saying it does. The teaching of Christ requires that you humble yourself and consider others higher than yourself. I refer you to James, a very short book in the Bible that has many examples. Each person asks for wisdom from God rather than trying to dicker with their neighbor over differences. In the letter I John we read that Love is the commandment given. Love contradicts the idea of agreement through argument. Sometimes honoring God just takes humility and putting up with other people, and this contrasts with the sense of unity people think they have when they focus on saying all the same scripts. It isn't 'Saying the same thing' like Paul means it. Paul suggests agreement through one name, the name Lord Jesus Christ.Actually disagreement was not tolerated at all in the first century. The apostles were about settling disagreements, not permitting them. The circumcision issue was a prime example. It appears that the disputes were becoming heated and so the body of elders and the apostles in Jerusalem settled it once and for all. John also highlighted the need for unity when he said....
"Look out for yourselves, so that you do not lose the things we have worked to produce, but that you may obtain a full reward. 9 Everyone who pushes ahead and does not remain in the teaching of the Christ does not have God. The one who does remain in this teaching is the one who has both the Father and the Son. 10 If anyone comes to you and does not bring this teaching, do not receive him into your homes or say a greeting to him. 11 For the one who says a greeting to him is a sharer in his wicked works." (2 John 8-11)
He urges them to accomplish this through the name "Lord Jesus Christ," and solving things by dispute and argument is not at all what he wants. The name is something you say, so you all say the same thing. Its a figure of speech. The basic message begins with John the Baptist preaching of the lowering of the high places and raising of valleys (Voice calling in the desert etc), meaning nobody is smarter or better or more honest than another. Jesus proceeds to correct the Pharisees about their fractious ways, which are similar to the ways of JW's, SBC's, RCC's and so forth. Everybody has their little group, so almost nobody is gathering in his name but in our own names. John's emphasis in your quoted passage is through the name "Lord Jesus Christ," but you want to flip it and make it be about reading from scripts. That is a temptation, not a solution nor what 1Corinthians means.Paul too....
"Now I urge you, brothers, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you should all speak in agreement and that there should be no divisions among you, but that you may be completely united in the same mind and in the same line of thought." (1 Cor 1:10)
In the first century things were kept under control. After the death of the apostles however, things changed markedly.....an apostasy was foretold.
There are twelve apostles chosen from all different backgrounds. They agree in the name Lord Jesus Christ and fellow-ship in that name alone. The narrow path is humility, denial of self, satisfaction in Christ not in speeches. They all say the same name, and that is the same speech. Apostasy happens when someone leaves Christ, not when they have their own thoughts about an interpretation.Yes, when the apostasy was in full swing, men were want to have their own way with God's word and introduced man-made traditions just as Judaism had done before her....and with the same result.
Paul has to agree with the canon, so if he's talking about Tanach he's not talking about personal afterlives. His conversation about resurrection is based upon the scriptures, which are about the restoration of Israel. He isn't allowed to change the canon. As an apostle he has to be basing his discussion on that, and in turn we should be able to follow his meaning based upon having that in common with him. In addition, everything that can be known about God can be deduced from observing the world. Paul says this, too. God is not revealed to us through Paul. The gospels writers have the same restriction, so we apply it but not as a litmus test for who is or isn't in Christ.We need to read the whole chapter to get the sense of what Paul was saying. When he was speaking of the resurrection of Christ, he was not talking about an afterlife as Christendom came to understand it.....he was talking about raising someone from the dead in either a physical body (like Lazarus) or in a spiritual body, (like Jesus.) He was not speaking about an immortal soul.....some invisible part of man that leaves the body at death....that was never a Jewish belief. Jews believed in sleeping in death, unconscious and inactive (Eccl 9:5, 10) and being raised back to life in a body re-created by God. That body could be either physical to be restored to life on earth, or spiritual in order to be raised to life in heaven as a king/priest with Jesus. (Rev 20:6)
Those who will be raised to heaven will be resurrected "first" but not until Christ's return. (1 Thess 4:13-16)
Later Jesus will call the rest of the dead from their graves, not from heaven . (John 5:28, 29)
I am suggesting to you what I feel has become obvious -- that to Paul, Christ is that restoration of Israel, which he refers to as 'The Anointed' (translates to Christ). Everything is about that, and nothing seems to be about an afterlife for individuals. Afterlife appears to be a Greek concept, something that is about the self. Life in Christ is about denying the self. For emphasis: everything written in the New Testament books is subject to the Tanach. If you can't source things from there, then you haven't understood them or there is a problem of some kind. I see your quote from John and I hear your suggestion, but I don't see how it follows from the canon. I think you don't either.
Best not to respond to that comment if we cannot agree on the above.Jesus clearly connects this "sign" with his "presence" as king...not his "coming" as judge. These are two separate events....one unseen to human eyes...the other unmissable.