Christians believe that (1) God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost are one personage and NOT three personages united in one purpose, and (2) that God is a spirit, and does not have a body of flesh and bone. That would make Jesus a spirit as well, and therefore, the resurrection never happened (??), or did it?.
Can someone explain this paradox, since if Christ did resurrect why would He become a spirit again and not keep His resurrected body. If it wasn't that big of a deal to resurrect, why did he show His resurrected body to his apostles and disciples? If He decided to become a spirit again, would that not cheapen the whole triumph of resurrecting?
2007-05-29 10:45:27 · 7 answers · asked by fbjohn117 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
There are several mysteries involved here.
+ The Holy Trinity +
The doctrine of the Holy Trinity in which the one true God is made up of three separate but equal persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
This belief is shared by most Christian denominations including Roman and Orthodox Catholics, Lutherans, Anglicans, Baptists, Methodists, Presbyterians, Pentecostals and Episcopalians.
+ The Incarnation +
Christians believe that Jesus was totally God and totally human at the same time. This miracle is called the Incarnation.
+ With love in Christ.
2007-05-31 16:42:17 · answer #1 · answered by imacatholic2 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
1. Christians do believe that Jesus, God, and the Holy Ghost are the three persons in the Holy Trinity.
2. God is the almighty, he is neither body nor spirit because he stands in his own category. Jesus is the son of God who was born as a HUMAN. The holy spirit is the messanger of Jesus who came to tell the apostles that Jesus was fine and not to be afraid.
God: Neither human nor spirit
Jesus: Body
Holy spirit/ghost: Spirit
3. From an old storybook, i learned that Jesus was resurrected from the dead and he ascended into heaven. He was resurrected in the sense that he was allowed to go back to Earth after he died and tell the people that he was fine. That was the only time he could go back to earth. He is not a spirit, he is a soul in heaven... just like an ordinary human. He was not a spirit compared to the Holy spirit. Hope it helped somehow. Sorry if it didn't help though.
2007-05-30 00:50:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
OOOO heavy theological question! Jesus was god made flesh. He died for our sins and (according to theology) reopened the gates of heaven (apostle's creed said he died, descended into hell, then on the third day rose again from the dead then ascended into heaven....) He showed his resurrected body he proved to the apostles that death held no claim on him. (The church I believe thought people were stupid). No, becoming spirit again after Resurrection would not cheapen the Resurrection, if he did indeed become spirit. When he ascended it was supposedly both body and soul with the promise we would regain uncorrupted bodies when he came again. He returned to heaven to reopen the gates and to welcome all those who had been barred from heaven by the so called treachery of Adam and Eve. Supposedly no one could get to heaven until then. And as the other writer had said, god is three persons in one... God the father, God the son and God the holy spirit. The Divine trinity.
2007-06-01 19:47:21 · answer #3 · answered by Rev. Kaldea 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
??? you just don't understand the Trinity: 3 persons, one entity. One Spirit, One Soul, One Father (He isn't a spirit, but we jsut know He's got the essense).
you don't become a spirit when you die, in Christian theology. you stay a soul and you got to Heaven or hell. a spirit and a soul are different. aspirit is an 'ethereal' (word of best fit) form that can communicate to other spirits, but is mindless and therefore needs a mind. the human soul is an 'ethereal' form that has within it the non-physical part of the mind, the will and the emotions. the soul of a human governs that persons spirit. your spirit returns to God (it's a loan) and your soul goes to heaven or Hell (it's an ownership).
so Jesus was never a spirit. only the Holy Spirit was/is/continues to be God the Spirit
2007-05-31 22:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by Hey, Ray 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your premise is wrong. Christians believe that there are three persons in one God. This is the divine Trinity.
It remains a mystery, even to Christians, how three persons can be in one God. Perhaps it is like steam, ice, and water. Three separate forms of the same element.
2007-05-29 18:00:40 · answer #5 · answered by LuckyLavs 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Jesus is fully man and Jesus is fully god
there is one god in three persons
look at a shamrock
it's a mystery- we call it specifically a mystery because it is too deep for a human mind to fathom
2007-06-02 14:31:15 · answer #6 · answered by irish 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Easter celebrates the spring equinox and the goddess EASTRE, who has as her symbols bunny rabbits, baby chicks and chicken eggs.
Jesus got shoehorned into Eastre's holiday, just as the rest of the Christian myths (Jesus born of a virgin, one god, three gods, transubstantiation, etc.) are leftovers from lots of mystery religions.
2007-05-29 19:40:29 · answer #7 · answered by nora22000 7 · 1⤊ 4⤋