Sorry for the late reply David.....been out for the day with my mother.
No we do not. Peter said that Christ was "put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit". (1Peter 3:18)
That means a spiritual resurrection not a physical one. He is called "the firstborn from the dead" (Colossians 1:18) because he is the first human raised to life as a spirit. There were others who were resurrected (even by Jesus himself) but these were returned to life in the flesh. All who are chosen for heavenly life will die a death like Jesus, and be raised as Jesus was raised as a spirit being.....but their resurrection was not to take place until he returned to take them "home" to the place he had prepared for them in heaven.
Paul wrote at 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
"Moreover, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who are sleeping in death, so that you may not sorrow as the rest do who have no hope. 14 For if we have faith that Jesus died and rose again, so too God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus. 15 For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; 16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord."
Spirit beings can materialize flesh and blood as angels had done in the past. After the fiasco of Noah's day when the rebel angels materialized human form and took human women in marriage, filling the earth with violence and immorality, God forbade his people to ever have dealings with spirits. The faithful angels always appeared as men, but the rebel spirits never materialized again.....though they could possess the bodies of other living things and even inanimate objects.
When three angels came to Abraham to inform him about the son he would have by Sarah, he prepared a meal for them and they ate and drank like any other human. When two of them headed off to Sodom to rescue Lot and his family from the cities destruction, they likewise had a meal prepared for them. Jesus too, materialized a fleshly body so he could eat and drink as he had done before.
Since the Jews were forbidden to communicate with spirits, God's faithful angels never compromised these servants of God by forcing them to disobey him.
Interesting. Do JW's believe that Jesus was physically resurrected?
No we do not. Peter said that Christ was "put to death in the flesh but made alive in the spirit". (1Peter 3:18)
That means a spiritual resurrection not a physical one. He is called "the firstborn from the dead" (Colossians 1:18) because he is the first human raised to life as a spirit. There were others who were resurrected (even by Jesus himself) but these were returned to life in the flesh. All who are chosen for heavenly life will die a death like Jesus, and be raised as Jesus was raised as a spirit being.....but their resurrection was not to take place until he returned to take them "home" to the place he had prepared for them in heaven.
Paul wrote at 1 Thessalonians 4:13-17
"Moreover, brothers, we do not want you to be ignorant about those who are sleeping in death, so that you may not sorrow as the rest do who have no hope. 14 For if we have faith that Jesus died and rose again, so too God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep in death through Jesus. 15 For this is what we tell you by Jehovah’s word, that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord will in no way precede those who have fallen asleep in death; 16 because the Lord himself will descend from heaven with a commanding call, with an archangel’s voice and with God’s trumpet, and those who are dead in union with Christ will rise first. 17 Afterward we the living who are surviving will, together with them, be caught away in clouds to meet the Lord in the air; and thus we will always be with the Lord."
How was he able to eat fish with his disciples after his ressurection if he was only a spirit?
Spirit beings can materialize flesh and blood as angels had done in the past. After the fiasco of Noah's day when the rebel angels materialized human form and took human women in marriage, filling the earth with violence and immorality, God forbade his people to ever have dealings with spirits. The faithful angels always appeared as men, but the rebel spirits never materialized again.....though they could possess the bodies of other living things and even inanimate objects.
When three angels came to Abraham to inform him about the son he would have by Sarah, he prepared a meal for them and they ate and drank like any other human. When two of them headed off to Sodom to rescue Lot and his family from the cities destruction, they likewise had a meal prepared for them. Jesus too, materialized a fleshly body so he could eat and drink as he had done before.
Since the Jews were forbidden to communicate with spirits, God's faithful angels never compromised these servants of God by forcing them to disobey him.