JW's: Jesus rose physically and not as a spirit?

Question

I know you teach that Jesus rose as a spirit and not with a physical body. How then do you interpret the following verses?

John 2:19 Jesus answered and said unto them, Destroy this temple, and in three days I will raise it up.
Joh 2:20 Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?
Joh 2:21 But he spake of the temple of his body.

gary 7 infiltrator - AM - they affect me because they lead people to Hell. I don't want anyone to go to Hell.

Mundo - It says flesh and blood do not belong in Heaven. What did Jesus say when speaking to the apostles? He said He was flesh and bone not flesh and blood.

Luke 24:39 Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

Does anyone else notice how the JW's completely ignore the verse provided? A verse in which Jesus specifically says He will raise up His body.

Answer 1

Jesus did rise in the same body of flesh and bones in which He died. A number of reasons can account for why He was not immediately recognized by His disciples.

1. Dullness.....................Luke 24:25-26
2. Disbelief.....................John 20:24-25
3. Disappointment...........John 20:11-15
4. Dread.........................Luke 24:36-37
5. Dimness of light at daybreak
.....................................John 20:1, 14-15
6. Distance.....................John 21:4
7. Different clothes..........John 19:23-24, 20:6-8

The problem was only temporary, and before the appearance was over they were absolutely convinced that it was the same Jesus in the same physical body and flesh, bones, and scars He had before the resurrection. And they went out to His presence to turn the slightest doubt that He had conquered the death in th same physical body in which He had experienced it.

There are real changes in the resurrection body, but it is not changed into a nonphysical body - one is substantially different from the one we posses now.

Answer 2

Edge, you are right, Jesus rose physically and not as a spirit. The scriptures are very clear on this but only to those who the Holy Spirit reveals it to and the JW's are spiritually dead, void of the Holy Spirit. Luke 24:16; But their eyes were restrained, so they did not know Him. verse 31; Then their eyes were opened and they knew Him. Jesus was the one who did this. verse 37; But they were terrified and frightened, and supposed they had seen a spirit. 38; And He said to them, Why are you troubled? And why do doubts arise in your hearts? 39; Behold My hands and My feet, that it is I Myself. Handle Me and see, for A SPIRIT DOES NOT HAVE FLESH AND BONES as you see I have.
Isn't God good! He put this here for us so there would be no doubt but, unbelief is the mother of all sins and only God can deal with that. John 2:19-22; Jesus said He would raise His body in three days not a spirit. He was speaking about the crucifixion. They crucified His body, not His spirit. Now, the JW's distort and twist the scriptures as usual because they do not understand them. For example they use 1 Peter 3:18 from their NWT, which they claim proves He was raised a spirit being but the bible makes it clear that this is not what the scripture says. Jesus spirit never died and neither does anyone else's. They also use 1 Corinthians 15:50; that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does corruption inherit incorruption and they apply this to Christ. Flesh and blood means sinful human beings in our natural fallen condition. Jesus was not a sinner, He took on the form of a human but without sin.
If Jesus did not rise bodily then He is a fraud, a liar and a false prophet and we know that is not true. It is amazing how many people claim to believe in Jesus and they don't even know who He truly is, Jesus is the God-Man. God in a body and He can do whatever He pleases. The JW's preach another Gospel and another Jesus just like the Apostle Paul warned about.
Amen!

Answer 3

After Jesus was resurrected how did the disciples recognize him?

By his looks or by the things he said?

The majority of times was by the things he said, So his physical body had to been different.

Next Flesh and bones / Flesh and blood reference the physical body, Flesh and bones without blood can not survive, especially since the life of the person is in the blood, and not the Flesh nor the bones.

What body is in heaven?

1 Cor 15:35 Nevertheless, someone will say: “How are the dead to be raised up? Yes, with what sort of body are they coming?”

38 but God gives it a body just as it has pleased him, and to each of the seeds its own body.

40 And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the glory of the heavenly bodies is one sort, and that of the earthly bodies is a different sort.

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.

The body Jesus has in heaven is spiritual, the body God raised up for Jesus is spiritual.

Why because the physical body can not 'go to heaven'.

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Answer 4

Jesus showed Himself to over 500 people. He was there physically because He interacted with people but what He looked like is a bit mysterious.

Mark 16:12-13
Afterward Jesus appeared in a different form to two of them while they were walking in the country. These returned and reported it to the rest; but they did not believe them either.

1 Corinthians 15:6-8
He appeared to James, then to all the apostles, and last of all he appeared to me also, as to one abnormally born.

Answer 5

***The physical body of Jesus Christ was not allowed to decay into dust as did the bodies of Moses and David, men who were used to foreshadow Christ. (De 34:5, 6; Ac 13:35, 36; 2:27, 31) When his disciples went to the tomb early on the first day of the week, Jesus’ body had disappeared, and the bandages with which his body had been wrapped were left in the tomb, his body doubtless having been disintegrated without passing through the process of decaying.—Joh 20:2-9; Lu 24:3-6.

After Jesus’ resurrection he appeared in different bodies. Mary mistook him for the gardener. (Joh 20:14, 15) He again appeared, entering a room with locked doors, having a body with wound marks. (Joh 20:24-29) Several times he manifested himself and was recognized, not by his appearance, but by his words and actions. (Lu 24:15, 16, 30, 31, 36-45; Mt 28:16-18) Once a miracle performed at his direction opened his disciples’ eyes to his identity. (Joh 21:4-7, 12) Jesus, having been resurrected as a spirit (1Pe 3:18), could materialize a body for the occasion as the angels did in past times, when they appeared as messengers. (Ge 18:2; 19:1, 12; Jos 5:13, 14; Jg 13:3, 6; Heb 13:2) During the days before the Flood, the angels that “did not keep their original position but forsook their own proper dwelling place” performed an incarnation and married human wives. That these angelic sons of God were not truly human but had materialized bodies is shown by the fact that the Flood did not destroy these angels, but they dematerialized and returned to the spirit realm.—Jude 6; Ge 6:4; 1Pe 3:19, 20; 2Pe 2:4

***King David of Israel wrote: “I foresaw the Lord always before my face; for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved . . . moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope: because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell [Sheol], neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.” (Ps 15:8-10, LXX, Bagster [16:8-11, NW]) On the day of Pentecost, 33 C.E., the apostle Peter applied this psalm to Jesus Christ, in declaring to the Jews the truth of Christ’s resurrection. (Ac 2:25-31) The Scriptures, both the Hebrew and the Greek, therefore show that it was the “soul” of Jesus Christ that was resurrected. Jesus Christ was ‘put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.’ (1Pe 3:18) “Flesh and blood cannot inherit God’s kingdom,” said the apostle Paul. (1Co 15:50) This would also exclude flesh and bones. Flesh and bones do not have life unless they have blood, for the blood contains the “soul” or is that which is necessary for the life of the creature of flesh.—Ge 9:4.

Answer 6

Didn't Jesus say he had flesh and bones when talking to Thomas? It doesn't take JW belief read that from the bible.


One's spiritual resurrection (in the mind) requires being physically alive.

Answer 7

I am not a JW, but what Jesus meant was he was going to be resurrected in three days, which we all now he did. However, when Jesus ascended to the clouds, he had to dematerialized to a spirit form, the same way the angels do it, because, flesh and blood do not belong to Heaven.

Answer 8

whats up Roy! do no longer pay attention to those adult men. they have self assurance that stuff because of the fact they study a e book pronounced as the "Watchtower" that their leaders say is quite scripture. The a hundred and forty four,000 that they are conversing approximately is a scripture in Revelation that they twisted out of context to no end. The a hundred and forty four,000 are the quantity of Jews which would be witnesses in the process the tribulation AFTER the rapture. in case you opt to examine it extra only study Revelation. As for the guy-made holidays, no God never reported to rejoice them, yet He never instructed us to hug teddy bears the two. that does no longer mean that we ought to continually no longer! The trinity is a demanding demanding undertaking. study John a million:a million-14. it is quite the trinity in a nutshell. The trinity isn't reported interior the Bible, it is actual. yet that would not make the assumption of the trinity an much less actual. approximately their Bible...it quite is thoroughly diverse. only that one passage i discussed above, they replaced thoroughly to make the doctrine of the trinity non-existent in that passage. they alter it from "And the be conscious exchange into with God, and the be conscious exchange into God" to "And the be conscious exchange into with God, and the be conscious exchange into A God." that is kinda sickening in case you question me. wish this facilitates guy. the different questions, enable me understand.

Answer 9

This is what is taught, truly? Have they excised the last chapters of each of the Gospels from the Bible, then?

His appearance to Mary M. and the other women, who "held him by the feet and worshipped him"; Emmaus road; sitting at table with them, blessing bread and breaking it; the wounds shown to Thomas ...

... Who did these things, a hologram?

Answer 10

first it is known from bible history the angels had teh ability to materialize (example, abraham fed angels) spirits don't eat we can't see spirits but we can physical beings. Jacob wrestled with an angel, you can't wrestle with spirits but you can if one can materailize.

the demons lost that ability due to materializing and abusing the ability by producing the nephilim before the flood.

jesus however didn'[t lose his ability to materalize (after all spirits are superior to us in so many ways) we can't see or talk to spirits and they us when they aren't in the physical realm. though we can pray to God he doesn't directly talk to us, he could if he wanted to, but we have the bible in completion, no need for miracles and speaking directing to us, Yet. if course angels can observe and hear us we can't them when they are in the spirit form.

if there is a physical body there is a spiritual body, paul said, so when he said body he meant spirtual since he can't take back the real physical body he sacrificed otherwise he would be taking back the life he sacrificed hence the ransom would be null. when jesus was on the earth before his sacrifice he was human human, he wasn't god/man or angel materialized, he was the second adam as paul said, adam was human human not god/man or materailized angel. a angel or godman sacrifice would be greater than the sacrifice needed to redeem inferior human. soul for soul means like for like, jesus had to be an exact of adam for the sacrifice to meet such justice.

understand?

he did rise as a spirit creature three days later and if you recall what the scriptures said many times those who loved him didn't recognize him by his physical appearance, mary thought he was a gardner, she didn't recognize him until he spoke and she recognized his mannerisms and manner of speaking. kind of like what happened to me, a friend came to visit who I haven't seen in like 10 or more years, and when he was on the porch I looked out the door and didn't recognize him, but the moment he spoke I knew who he was.

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