Jesus Christ is the son of God, when we read the book of Acts he was speaking to his disciples and then he started rising in the air and was later hidden by clouds. Afterwards angels told his disciples that he would return in the very same way he left. Jesus demonstrated when he rose from the dead that the glorified resurrection body has the ability to be Physical. He ate when his disciples offered him fish and a honey comb and his disciples also touched him.
Doubting Thomas touched his side. The Bible does not teach that when we die we go to immediatly to heaven. The doctrine of soul immortality came from satan the devil it came to Eve in the garden of Eden. The devil told Eve that she wouldn't die on the day that she would eat of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. He told her that on the day she would eat, her and her husbands eyes would be opened and they would become like gods knowing good and evil. What really happened was that their bodies started decaying and then they died a very physical death and didn't go anywhere. They are awaiting the resurrection from the dead at Christ's second coming when he will take those who believe in him to heaven=3rd heaven in Outer Space where the Father dwells which is in inaccesible light where no man has ever been.
The errr of Soul immortality:
Is the basis of all spiritualistic teachings that once you die you attain some sort of godhood but this is false. The Bible teaches in the book of Revelation chapter 20 that the dead shall be raised and after that they will be thrown into the lake of fire which will be planet earth burning. See revelation 20 read it carefully. Later
God will recreate the surface of our planet and at the same time destroy the wicked. Then the beloved disciple John saw and new heaven and a new earth. It is after the wicked are destroyed in the( lake of fire=planet earth burning )that God will bring heaven back to earth. He will make planet earth an Edenic beauty with glorified humans living here with him.
All of this information is found in Revelation 20 onward. Christians have been so dupped by greek mystical theology and its infiltration into Christianity that for centuries they have been confused with this false theology.
The doctrine of soul immortality is the basis for all spiritualism from Buddism to Hinduism and all nature religions. The Bible does not teach soul immortality, it teaches the bodily resurrection from the dead. When we read the Old Testament we clearly see what the Bible really teaches.
Ecclesiastes 3: states
17] I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.
[18] I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.
[19] For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.
[20] All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
[21] Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?
Also see Ecclesiates 9:
5] For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing, and they have no more reward; but the memory of them is lost.
[6] Their love and their hate and their envy have already perished, and they have no more for ever any share in all that is done under the sun.
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Go, eat your bread with enjoyment, and drink your wine with a merry heart; for God has already approved what you do. 8] Let your garments be always white; let not oil be lacking on your head. [9] Enjoy life with the wife whom you love, all the days of your vain life which he has given you under the sun, because that is your portion in life and in your toil at which you toil under the sun. [10] Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work or thought or knowledge or wisdom in Sheol, to which you are going.
