One tidbit I’d like to share is Walsh argues Paul formed his ideas of the universe out of a stoic milieu, Paul coming from Tarsus, the birthplace of the stoic enlightenment. So, for instance, for Plutarch in “On the Face of the Moon” says when you die

• Your body is buried into the earth
• Your soul (psyche) and mind (nous) rise out of that material body that is now in the earth, and start to shoot up toward the moon.
• Solar wind blows on you and separates that mind/soul
• The soul separates and goes back to the moon because that’s where it’s from.
• Your mind/creative fire separates and goes back into the sun because that’s where it’s from
• If you’re a good person your soul will party on the moon
• If you weren’t good your soul might sink down to earth because you’re still attached to earthly things.  Sometime bad souls would be replanted into the moon to be purified and then replanted into a different person.

Walsh argues Paul thought Jesus is on the moon waiting for the souls to set up the heavenly kingdom.  Through baptism and the eucharist the pneuma of Christ enters you and it is that which will comprise your spiritual body at the resurrection.  Everyone who does not have this Christ pneumatic stuff will just pass away, whereas Christians will be raised to glory. Walsh does not say this but presumably Christ pneuma needs to be received at the baptism, and replenished repeatedly at the eucharist, since Christians who leave the fold give up the glorious resurrection.