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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 7:06:07 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 7:07:30 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 7:07:38 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 7:10:47 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 7:15:12 GMT -5
QUESTION: Does the bible teach that Jesus was ressurrected back to human life in a physical body?ANSWER: No. Firstly, to reclaim his human life would render null and void the sacrifice of that life. Further the bible explicitly states the following: QUESTION: So if Jesus was raised as a spirit, how was it possible his disciples saw and touched him?The answer to this question lies in understanding what, according to scriptures, spirits are capable of doing.A spirit is an intelligent unseen (invisible to humans) lifeform. God Himself is a spirit (John 4:24) and angels are spirits (He 1:14). If we examine scriptures closely, we see that angels (spirits) have been seen by humans - remember the angel Gabriel appearing to Mary, the mother of Jesus? (see Lk 1: 28. Also spirits (angels) are recorded in scripture as eating food (compare Gen 19: 1, 3) and that they could touch and be felt by humans (see Gen 19:10). Indeed often in scripture, far fromt he popular depiction of men with wings, angels when they appeared were often simply mistaken for ordinary humans (men) - compare Gen 18: 2, 8Does the above mean that Gabriel and the other spirit angels were HUMAN? Most people would reasonably conclude that, for example, although evidently Gabriel (normally invisible to humans) made himself visibible, he remained a spirit (angel). Given the above scriptural evidence, it seems reasonable to conclude that spirits can, for want of a better word, "materialize" at will. So Thomas and the disciples saw and interacted with Jesus in "human form" (as did Mary, Abraham and lot with other spirits) but that did not make them "human" simply spirits that have taken on or "materialized" /adopted visible human-like bodies for the specific purpose of direct interaction - or in the case of Thomas, to strengthen his faith in the fact of the resurrection.
Finally, as a side point we can arguably look at the matter from another angle, we can also look at what HUMANS can and cannot do. Humans cannot walk through solid walls, humans cannot travel from one location to another miles away within minutes, humans cannot instantly disappear. All of which the gospel accounts record as things Jesus did after his resurrection but never prior to his death even with all his miraculous powers. CONCLUSION: Jesus was indeed resurrected as a spirit but retained the abilities that Gabriel and other spirits evidently have to "materialize" to be seen, or even physically touched by humans. Further reading www.jw.org/en/bible-teachings/questions/jesus-body/
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Post by Admin on Jun 6, 2018 7:16:39 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:25:22 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:25:32 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:26:33 GMT -5
"So they handed him a piece of broiled fish" - Luke 24:42 |
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:26:44 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:26:54 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:27:08 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 21:39:30 GMT -5
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Post by Admin on Apr 10, 2020 22:00:16 GMT -5
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