What is Jehovah's Witnesses take on the question: Did Jesus' body rise?

Question

Everyone tell me your take on this subject and tell what is your belief system.

Answer 1

Jesus ROSE bodily. How else would Doubting Thomas be able to stick his fingers into the wounds on Jesus's body, if Jesus was just a spirit Thomas would not have been able to do this. A spirit also does not eat. Jesus ate numerous times with the Apostles after His resurrection. Jesus also walked the earth for 40 more days after His resurrecetion. A spirit does not walk, a spirit would float. Jesus rose and ascended bodily to heaven

Answer 2

1 Cor 15:42-45 talks about the resurrection of the dead. For the holy & anointed ones and also Jesus, they were given a spiritual body not physical. Please notice the contrast.

1 Cor 15:42-45
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised up in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised up in power. 44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. 45 It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.

1 Cor 15:44 – sown PHYSICAL body, raised up a SPIRITUAL body.
1 Cor 15:45 – Adam became a soul(i.e. with PHYSICAL body) , the last Adam became a life-giving SPIRIT (i.e with spiritual body).
Notice the context is talking of the resurrection of the dead.

Notice the holy ones of God will be like Jesus stated at 1 John 3:2, i.e. will have spiritual bodies.

Jesus of course can take the form of a physical body anytime he wishes to just like in the case of Luke 24:36,37.

Abraham gave food to the angels that materialized and they all ate. Do these angels who are spirits at that time have physical bodies? Yes. This is the same thing that Jesus did, when he showed himself to his apostles. Notice that the glorified Jesus is the “exact representation of [God’s] very being”. God is a spirit and has no physical body but instead with spiritual body, so Jesus just went back to his previous state, that is his being a spirit (no physical body). Heb. 1:3; 1 Timothy 6:16.

Jesus assured the apostles that he was no apparition, which he was not, but that it was indeed he; and he did indeed have a fleshly body which he MATERIALIZED for the occasion. In other words, Jesus was assuring them that he was not the product of their imagination, neither was he someone else, but in truth and in fact the very Jesus they had known before his death.

Also, Jesus materialized to the exact same body that he has when he was a human, so that all of his apostles will believe, esp Thomas, that he is ALIVE. Notice the physical body that Jesus had has wounds, but in all the other occasions, it doesn’t and the apostles do not recognize him immediately. The glorified body of Jesus definitely does not have wounds & holes, but is perfect. He only materialized into the body with wounds so those who do not believe will believe that he is alive and it is him not a ghost.

A spirit does not have a physical body but a spiritual body. But a spirit can materialize to a physical body. 1 Cor 15. See 1 Pet 3:18 also.


Jesus did not remain as a man as Gal 1:1 states “Paul, an apostle, neither from men nor through a MAN, but through Jesus Christ”.


The physical body of Jesus was not in the tomb because he gave it to the person of God. Heb 9.

Jesus has became lower than the angels (spirits) when he became human (physical). After resurrection, Jesus is higher again than angels (spirits).If Jesus retain his physical body then he is still lower than angels.

Answer 3

Wow if they really believe that His spirit just rose, than I guess they deny the fact in the bible where mary came and seen Him. It's not like it's just a word or one verse either, it's like a page almost. I really can't remember the book and chapter, but to believe that is kind of strange. The stone was rolled away and the cloths that was around him were also there in the tomb.

Answer 4

THE BIBLE IS JEHOVAH'S WITNESS AND JESUS HIS GREATEST ONE

The bible gives scripture on all subjects, to collect and study.

What ever you are alive that is you soul. John 4:24; Jer.9:9; God is a Spirit, God is a soul. If God does not know in his word, no one does.

James 1:26; Eccl.19-21; 12:7; Psm.104:29,30; 1Cor.15:22-28,51-53; Souls are created or made Gen.1:26; Souls are born, souls are resurrected and the life of the soul is the spirit of God Gen.6:3; Num.16:22; Rev.6:9-11; Souls slaughtered for the word of God is in heaven. Luke 20:34-36; Angels are spirit and they do not die, even if they sinned Jude 6; 1Pet.3:18-20; 2Pet.2:4; their judges 1Cor.6:2.3;

John 3:3 Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
3:4 Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born?
3:5 Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

John 3:1-7; This is the heavenly, it is sure not what we have seen with our eyes, or not any thing we can describe with ease, but the bible does tell us.

Answer 5

They believe he was remade as a spirit creature, and the rise to heaven was not to be literally taken. (Well he may have risen, but they don’t believe he floats around in space.) Anyway, as a human he was killed, his body rots on earth.
Note he was resurrected as a spirit, not a human. Witnesses believe that 144,000 will be remade as spirits also. Everyone else that is not evil to the core will be remade as human after Armageddon.

http://www.jw-media.org/beliefs/index.htm

Answer 6

Jesus rose from the death with an spiritual body a body that can materialized as his will.

1 Peter 3:18 "Why, even Christ died once for all time concerning sins, a righteous [person] for unrighteous ones, that he might lead YOU to God, he being put to death in the flesh, but being made alive in the spirit."

1 Corithians 15:42 " So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised up in incorruption. 43 It is sown in dishonor, it is raised up in glory. It is sown in weakness, it is raised up in power. 44 It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one. 45 It is even so written: “The first man Adam became a living soul.” The last Adam became a life-giving spirit."

1 Corithians 15:42 "It is sown a physical body, it is raised up a spiritual body. If there is a physical body, there is also a spiritual one"

1 Corithians 15:50 "However, this I say, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom, neither does corruption inherit incorruption"

If Jesus resurrected in a body of flesh then he couldn´t go to heaven.

other sons of God in the past materialized their spiritual bodies remember the two angels that went to Lot they ate food and Lot could touch them but they were angels with materilized bodies.

Answer 7

They will just come back at you with the verse,,, "He was raised a life giving Spirit". Then comes "We shall be CHANGED (quikened),, But why th' beef,, take what DAVID said PSALM 17:15 "As for me,I will see Your face in righteousness; I shall be satisfied when I,,,AWAKE,, in Your likeness",!!! and thats MY take on the matter!!

Answer 8

What does the Bible say? At 1 Pet. 3:18, 19 Peter says: “For Christ also died for our sins once for all. He, the just, suffered for the unjust, to bring us to God. In the body he was put to death; in the spirit he was brought to life. And in the spirit he went and made his proclamation to the imprisoned spirits.”

As regards Jesus’ resurrection, Peter says that “in the spirit he was brought to life.” This explains why on the resurrection morning when God’s angel rolled the stone from the door of the sepulcher the soldier guards did not see Jesus rise from the dead and come out, although they did see the materialized angel. (Matt. 28:1-4) This explains why, when the resurrected Jesus met two disciples walking that day to Emmaus and went along with them and started to take supper with them, they did not know him until he began to serve the bread; and then he disappeared.

For Jesus, who had been brought to life in the spirit, to make himself visible to his disciples, he had to materialize on each occasion a body of flesh and bones. Jesus himself then said: “A spirit does not have flesh and bones just as you behold that I have.” Since the flesh-and-bones disciples could not see what was not flesh and bones, they could not see a spirit and they could not see the resurrected Jesus, who was “in the spirit.” Luke 24:39.

Since the apostle Thomas was able to put his hand into the hole in Jesus’ side, that does not show that Jesus was raised from the dead in the same body that was nailed to the stake. Jesus simply materialized or took on a fleshly body, as angels had done in the past. In order to convince Thomas of who He was, He used a body with wound holes. He appeared, or seemed to be, fully human, able to eat and drink, just as did the angels that Abraham once entertained. Genesis 18:8;

On at least two occasions he materialized bodies that resembled the one in which he had been nailed to the stake. (Luke 24:38-40; John 20:20-27) On other occasions the form or shape that he materialized left the disciples in doubt for a while.

For those who say Jesus is God, can God die, thus needing someone to bring him back to life?

Answer 9

They deny the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.

Answer 10

Um I second what Tebone03 said.