was the body of Christ the same before and after his Resurrection?

Answer 1

No, Christ's body was obviously different after His resurrection, first of all for the very fact of His resurrection, which cannot happen by natural means in a merely natural body. Second, He did have an actual body after His resurrection, as evidenced by when He told Thomas to reach out and touch His physical wounds--something that obviously can't be done with a spirit--but it was somehow different. (Some groups like Jehovah's Witnesses say that Jesus just transformed into a body so that His disciples would know it was Him--but what would be the purpose of deceiving them if He didn't really rise physically? And wouldn't that make Him a deceiver?) Check out Luke 24 at the first link below--Jesus not only tells the disciples to touch Him and see that He has risen physically, but because they still did not believe He had risen physically from the dead, He took a piece of fish and ate it in their presence. Spirits can't eat!

Further proof of His physical resurrection can be seen by looking at Matthew 28:1-15: Roman guards who'd been watching Jesus' tomb witnessed the earthquake, rolling away of the stone in front of Jesus' grave and the fact that He wasn't in the tomb as He was resurrected. Now, if this was just a SPIRITUAL resurrection, His body should've still been in the tomb--but it wasn't, and other Scripture passages back up the fact of His bodily resurrection. Look at the chief priests' reactions to the claims by the soldiers that Jesus rose from the dead--they fabricated a story that Jesus' body was stolen and promised to help the soldiers cover their butts if the Roman governor heard what happened--because if these soldiers were asleep on the job, they would be put to death. But if Jesus had just resurrected SPIRITUALLY, all that anyone had to do was just retrieve His physical body from the tomb and parade it through the streets of Jerusalem. Bodies don't decay to the point of disappearing in just three days--so if Jesus didn't really rise, where's His body? Alive and well and resurrected from the dead.

I wrote an article a couple years ago about the reality of Jesus' resurrection as portrayed in "The Passion Of The Christ." The point I made was that if Jesus went through violence against Him even remotely like that which was portrayed in the movie, then was crucified, unless He was in fact resurrected and totally transformed after the fact, no other explanation makes sense as to what happened to Him after the cross. I'd be interested in receiving feedback from any of you. The article is at the first link below.

Answer 2

No it was not. Before Jesus died His physical body had the same limits ours do for the most part. (He did walk on water which I cannot do). However when He returned He could enter rooms without opening doors and other such things that a normal human body cannot. The Bible says when we see Him we will be like Him (1 John 3) So one day we will receive a glorified body like the one Jesus had after the resurrection. I can't wait.

Answer 3

nope. Before the Resurrection His body was dead. After the Resurrection His body was alive.

Answer 4

no Christ went to his disciples after he rose from the grave but he told them not to touch him for he had not ascended unto his Father, he was not a body at that time but a spirit.

Answer 5

His spirit body? I'll have to ask him.

Open your heart and your soul shall evolve to higher levels.

Answer 6

Yes, same body, but it would stand to reason that God healed his wounds when God rose him from the dead.

Answer 7

Nope, he came back with some big azz scars if you believe in that stuff anyway