See the Bible, Luke 24:36-43
2007-10-26 07:47:27 · 19 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
His physical body rose. The tomb was empty! And as Luke 24:36-43 tell us he was flesh and bone, they touched him and he ate with them. Spirit cannot eat.
2007-10-26 13:29:59 · answer #1 · answered by Pamela V 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
If Jesus rose as a spirit only then He is not alive. To be alive you have to have a body and a breath. Jesus being a spirit means that He is not alive. He told us He was the Ressurection and The Life! He could not be as a spirit!
2015-03-20 06:41:04 · answer #2 · answered by Timothy Peugh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hope....
No. He wasnt a spirit then, and He is not one now.
"For there is one God and one mediater between God and men, the MAN Christ Jesus" (1Tim2:5)
1) Notice the PRESENT tense.
2) If Jesus is just a spirit (as the Watchtower would have you believe,) then neither we, nor they, HAVE a mediater.
Also, 1John3:2, "...now we are children of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when He appears we shall be LIKE Him, for we shall see Him as HE IS"
So therefore, If jesus is only a spirit, then so will be all who believe in Him, for we shall be LIKE Him in the future. If He has a physical body, then so will we. (albeit, a glorified one).
So, the JW's, "can't have their cake and eat it to".
If He is only a spirit, then there is no paradise on earth for them or anyone else in a PHYSICAL body.
(Funny how a couple of word tenses can destroy a whole false theological argument. By the way, Jesus destroyed a whole argument of the sadduces with just a tense of a word once. For all you bible buffs out there, can you locate the passage I'm referring to? Goes to show how EVERY "jot and tittle" is important in Gods word. Even the tenses.)
Thanks for a great question.
....theBerean
2007-10-26 11:03:33 · answer #3 · answered by theBerean 5 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Read Matthew Chapter 27:51-66 and Matthew 28....You can't see a spirit. You can't touch or feel a Spirit, John 20:26-31...You even cited in Luke 27:41-44 that Jesus ate, you logically have to have a physical body.
2007-10-26 08:01:20 · answer #4 · answered by ShadowCat 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In Luke 24:39 specifically He states, "a ghost does not have flesh and bones, as you see I have." This says He came back in human form and not as a spirit. What He left with us was His spirit.
2007-10-26 23:53:39 · answer #5 · answered by Angelica1951 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he had just been a spirit, he would not have "risen". Resurrection implies both body and soul together.
If it had been only his spirit, he would not have needed to remove the winding sheets. The stone would not have needed to be moved. Thomas and the others could not have touched him because there would have been no body to touch. He wouldn't have been able to eat the fish and honeycomb which he consumed to PROVE that it really was him, in the body.
If you think about it you will see that this must be so.
2007-10-26 09:40:50 · answer #6 · answered by anna 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Immediately after the Resurrection, he forbid Mary Madeline from touching him. He had not yet received his glorified body. At this stage he was a spirit. As can be seen, a spirit can be tangible. Later when he visited the apostles, he was in a completely physical body.
2007-10-26 08:34:53 · answer #7 · answered by Isolde 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was not a disembodied spirit, He, in fact had a physical body of flesh and bones; no blood is mentioned because the Glorified Body has no blood; whereas now the life of the flesh is in the blood, then when our bodies are glorified the life will be in the Spirit, i.e; "Holy Spirit".
2007-10-26 08:15:04 · answer #8 · answered by sparkplug 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Jesus was raised a spirit creature as the Bible states.
1 Corinthians 15:45
So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being"[; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit.
1Peter 3:18
For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, so that He might bring us to God, HAVING BEEN PUT TO DEATH IN THE FLESH, BUT MADE ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT.
He cannot be raised in his body because his BODY was a sacrifice.
Hebrews 10:10
"And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all"
John 6:51
"I am the living bread that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world."
How can it be a sacrifice if he took his body back?
Do Spirits have flesh? No.
How can they have flesh?
Spirits can materialize to be seen by humans, and this was done by angels.
Genesis 19:1-3
1 The two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When he saw them, he got up to meet them and bowed down with his face to the ground.
2 "My lords," he said, "please turn aside to your servant's house. You can WASH YOUR FEET and spend the night and then go on your way early in the morning."
"No," they answered, "we will spend the night in the square."
3 But he insisted so strongly that they did go with him and entered his house. He prepared a meal for them, baking bread without yeast, and THEY ATE.
Another account shows the angel having hands and being called a man.
Joshua 5:13-15
13 Now when Joshua was near Jericho, he looked up and saw a man standing in front of him with a drawn sword in his hand. Joshua went up to him and asked, "Are you for us or for our enemies?"
14 "Neither," he replied, "but as commander of the army of the LORD I have now come." Then Joshua fell facedown to the ground in reverence, and asked him, "What message does my Lord have for his servant?"
15 The commander of the LORD's army replied, "Take off your sandals, for the place where you are standing is holy." And Joshua did so.
As you can see, spirit creatures can have flesh if they materialize.. How do you think the fallen angels committed fornication with the ones on earth? They had to materialize right?
2007-10-26 08:10:33 · answer #9 · answered by VMO 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
That passage has Jesus assuring his frightened disciples that he was NOT a spirit (or a ghost) as they thought. Alas, the Jehovah's Witnesses would have us believe that he merely materialised a human body for that occasion, to look human, even though he was resurrected as a spirit and his physical body 'disappeared'. They have to alter what the Bible says in 1 Peter 3:18 to bolster their flimsy case. They translate it as Jesus 'being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive IN the spirit' instead of 'BY the Spirit'. They also have to deny the scriptures that refer to the risen Christ as 'the man, Jesus Christ.'
2007-10-26 08:05:58 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 1⤋