If I may, I would like to answer these questions....
So then, what comes out of the grave at the resurrection ? Why bother at all with the graves and bodies of the dead, why not just materialize their spirits ? Why did the tomb of Christ have to be opened, why not just let the flesh of His body rot away to nothingness if it had no further purpose, and where did it go ? It wasn´t in the tomb.
What comes out of the grave at the time of the resurrection as
@URAVIP2ME has mentioned, is a re-created body of the one who was dead and buried. (John 5:28-29) In calling the dead from their graves, it indicates that all of the dead are still in them. Revelation even mentions those who were buried at sea giving up their dead. (Revelation 20:13) Ecclesiastes also says that the dead are unconscious, incapable of thoughts or activity. (Ecclesiastes 9:5; 10) We have no advantage over the animals in death. (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20) That is not what God planned in the beginning.
Physical bodies once deprived of breath, die and as the cells break down the body decays. When Lazarus was raised by Jesus, his sister acknowledge that after four days, his body would "smell" due to decomposition. (John 11:39) What emerged from the tomb was not a decaying body but one fully restored to health. This is a physical resurrection of a dead body with the "spirit" (breath) restored to oxygenate the body.
Jesus' resurrection was the first of its kind...a resurrection to life "in the spirit". Jesus' body was removed just as Moses' body was not accessible to human interference. We see that relic worship is practiced in some lands and religions....imagine what they would have made out of bones or teeth or hair from the corpses of two of the most prominent men in scripture?
What does Paul say will happen to the living righteous ( for you, some of the 144,000) alive at the resurrection ?
He says that those who fall asleep in death will not precede those already 'asleep'. Christ is the "firstborn from the dead" so no one went to heaven before he did.
The resurrection of those who are of the "heavenly calling" was not to take place until Christ returned to take them "home" to the place he had "prepared for them". So when Christ returned at the beginning of the "last days" of this present system, (1914) he raised all those of his anointed who were sleeping in their graves. But those of the anointed left on earth until his manifestation as judge, will not need to sleep in death at all. He says that they will all be "changed, in the twinkling of an eye" or instantaneously be transformed into spirit beings without undergoing physical death and burial.
As the last days progress all the features of the sign that Jesus gave are in evidence. He had to give a "sign of his presence" because, like his enthronement, it was not visible to human eyes. (Daniel 7:13-14)
Lets get back to Jesus´ body. So, Moses is not to be resurrected in a fleshly body since God removed his body ?
Moses was buried by God according to scripture. No one knew where his body was. God knew that the Israelites were prone to false worship so he removed any reason to interfere with Moses' body for false religious reasons.
So Christ is the only person has been born who was, or will be resurrected without being resurrected ? Resurrection refers to the body, not a spirit.
You are not repeating anything that a JW has told you, but misconstruing the ideas...hopefully not on purpose.
Jesus was born as the son of God. He is not an incarnation of his Father but a most trusted servant sent on a mission by him. As he was 100% human, he had to die the same death as any other human. Upon taking him down off the torture stake, his body was wrapped and placed in the tomb of Joseph ...a devout man who volunteered his own burial place.There was no time before the Sabbath to do a proper job, so they were going to come back later to finish preparing his body for what they assumed was permanent burial.
Three days later as Peter stated, he was "raised in the spirit". As a spirit he had the ability, like other spirit beings in the past, to materialize fleshly bodies. After his resurrection he only "appeared" to his apostles, but he did not stay with them. On one occasion he simply vanished before their eyes. Often they did not recognize him, so he could apparently materialize in different bodies.
There is no such thing as a dead soul, think about it. A body with the breath of life creates a soul, absent the breath of life is a dead body, souls are only living.
To be clear, that is correct, but for the sake of the argument the Bible's formula for life is simple....
A body + breath = a soul. The Bible calls them "living souls" once they are animated by the oxygen circulated by breathing and blood flow, they become the opposite of what they were.....dead souls...to living souls..
Was Christ just doing a conjuring trick when he told Thomas to feel his scars ? Do spirits have scars, do they have bodies that can be felt ?
No, he just materialized a body with wound marks to convince a doubting Thomas. There is no mention of wounds in his other appearances which would have been obvious. He was tortured before his impalement.
He was not raised in the body he sacrificed.
Do all people have spirits ? What are they ?
Yes, but the word has various meanings in scripture. One thing it never means is a former dead person in non-physical form.
Spirits can be living creatures like angels, both faithful ones and demons. It is life in a disembodied form. A non-physical life, not dependent upon anything external to keep living , like we do.These spirits are not immortal however, but like us, they are dependent upon their obedience to God to keep living.
"Spirit" can also mean a person's disposition....a strong spirit or a weak one. A spirited animals also is described this way.
There is a spirit that animates humans that "returns to God" when we die. Since that spirit is "nephesh" it is the breath that keeps us alive...the same breath that God gave to Adam, because only God can return the spirit to allow a body to live again. That is what the resurrection is all about.
Please clarify this statement, it doesn´t make sense. Thanks
The resurrection is about the dead, because the living do not need a resurrection that is the same as those sleeping in death. Theirs is rather a transformation from a living human to a living spirit. They will still need to shed their mortal flesh however. How this is accomplished, only time will tell.
The Bible speaks of two separate resurrections....one for those who will rule with Christ in heaven, who die and are resurrected as Jesus was (in spirit form) and those who are resurrected in physical bodies to resume their life on earth under God's rulership for the very first time. (Revelation 20:6; John 5:28-29) Jesus came to get back what Adam lost for his children....everlasting life in paradise on earth with the best ruler we could ever wish for.
After thousands of years of trying to rule themselves, humans will have to admit that they cannot do the job successfully without their Creator.