If spirit can live on, what is the need that, later the physical body be resurrected?
Who says the spirit isn't physical?
In an infinite and eternal cosmos consisting of stuff moving through space, there's space--which is nothing--and stuff--which is something.
So, either spirit is nothing, in which case atheists are rational and reasonable, and all talk of spirit(s) is fantasy and nonsense; or spirit is stuff, in which case the atheists can still be rational and reasonable, but they are incorrect because no one has sufficiently described what stuff is and how some subsets of stuff can consist of stuff yet differ from other subsets of stuff.
Of course, if one does not believe in an infinite and eternal cosmos, one will have an even more difficult time trying to make sense of things I say.
Did Jesus have a physical body before He was born from womb of Mary?
Yeah, from his conception till his birth, he did. It would be remarkably odd if he didn't. So, did you really mean to ask if Jesus had a physical body "before He was born"?
Or were you asking if he had a pre-conception body?
I say: the jury hasn't come in with an answer to that, although there are Christians who say "Yea" and there are Christians who say "Nay", most notably, IMO, the Latter-day Saints (a.k.a. Mormons) and, I think, the Jehovah's Witnesses.
Personally, I haven't settled on an opinion, although the second article of the Apostle's Creed does affirm that Jesus was conceived by the Holy Spirit (in Latin: “
conceptus de Spiritu Sancto”; in Greek: “
τòν συλληφθέντα ἐκ πνεύματος ἁγίου”).
Does the God Father have a physical body?
Is He something or nothing? If He's nothing, He neither has a body nor is He physical. If He's something, He's physical but not physical in any sense that we humans commonly think of as physical. Does He have a body? No. But, I say, a subset of God is capable of theophany, i.e. appearing in a perceivable manner.
If from a Christian point of view, the answer is no, to both of these questions, that tells us, there is no need or advantage to have physical body after death.
"Need or advantage" may be reasons to have a physical body after death, but until you figure out some way of describing what a spirit is and what continues and what does not continue after death, you're arguing against a position of your own construction.
Does Allah have a physical body in Islamic view?
That's a question for Muslims to answer.
Why should there be a difference between Christianity and Islam regarding if Allah had a physical body or not, when both of these religions came from the same God, according to Muslims?
"Both these religions came from the same God, according to Muslims"??? As a couple of Baha'i have said elsewhere: anybody can claim whatever they want to, but claiming something doesn't make it true. The facts of the matter are these:
- Judaism and Islam share a similar concept of God, but do not share the same God.
- Judaism and Christianity share the same God, but do not share the same concept of God.
- Christianity and Islam share neither the same God nor the same concept of God.
- Proof: Ask a Muslim if Allah has children? If the Muslim says: "No", then I wonder: Does Allah have a short memory? Or did he say "Yes", but Muhammad forgot?
- Deuteronomy Chapter 14:
- You are children of the LORD your God.
- 2 Samuel, Chapter 7:
- 8 "Further, say thus to My servant David: Thus said the LORD of Hosts: I took you from the pasture, from following the flock, to be ruler of My people Israel,
- 9 and I have been with you wherever you went, ...
- 12 When your days are done and you lie with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring after you, one of your own issue, and I will establish his kingship.
- 13 He shall build a house for My name, and I will establish his royal throne forever.
- 14 I will be a father to him, and he shall be a son to Me.
- Psalm, Chapter 2:
- 7 Let me tell of the decree, the LORD said to me, "You are My son, I have fathered you this day.
- Psalm, Chapter 72:
- 4 Sing to God, chant hymns to His name; extol Him who rides the clouds; the LORD is His name. Exult in His presence, the father of orphans, the champion of widows, God, in His holy habitation.
- Wisdom of Solomon
- Chapter 1:
- 16 But the ungodly by their words and deeds summoned death; considering him a friend, they pined away and made a covenant with him, because they are fit to belong to his company.
- Chapter 2:
- 1 For they reasoned unsoundly, saying to themselves, ...
- 12 ‘Let us lie in wait for the righteous man, because he is inconvenient to us and opposes our actions; he reproaches us for sins against the law, and accuses us of sins against our training.
- 13 He professes to have knowledge of God, and calls himself a child of the Lord.
- 14 He became to us a reproof of our thoughts;
- 15 the very sight of him is a burden to us, because his manner of life is unlike that of others, and his ways are strange.
- 16 We are considered by him as something base, and he avoids our ways as unclean; he calls the last end of the righteous happy, and boasts that God is his father.
- 17 Let us see if his words are true, and let us test what will happen at the end of his life;
- 18 for if the righteous man is God’s child, He will help him, and will deliver him from the hand of his adversaries
- 19 Let us test him with insult and torture, so that we may find out how gentle he is, and make trial of his forbearance
- 20 Let us condemn him to a shameful death, for, according to what he says, he will be protected.’
- 21 Thus they reasoned, but they were led astray, for their wickedness blinded them,
- 22 and they did not know the secret purposes of God, nor hoped for the wages of holiness, nor discerned the prize for blameless souls;
- 23 for God created us for incorruption, and made us in the image of His own eternity,
- 24 but through the devil’s envy death entered the world, and those who belong to his company experience it.
- Now, go ask a Jew or a Christian: Does God the Father have children, and see what each one says.
- And for goodness sake, don't ask an Atheist or an Agnostic. Their votes don't count.
